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FIFA World Cup · Final · 29 June 1958

Blue Shirts, Five Goals

Brazil 5–2 Sweden · Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Seventeen, in improvised blue, with two goals in a final.

Sweden scored after four minutes. Brazil, who had no change kit with them, wore blue shirts bought in Stockholm with the badge sewn on, because Sweden kept the yellow. By the end it was 5-2, and 17-year-old Pelé had scored twice, the second a header from Zagallo's cross.

Djalma Santos, a tearful Pelé and Gilmar after the 1958 final
Photo: Pressens Bild · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Brazil 1958 Away · None (generic shirts bought in Stockholm; label reads IDROTT)

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