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4. Brazil 5-2 Sweden (1958)<\/b><\/p>\n
Pele who? The teenager was already a superstar in Brazil, netting goals at an incredible rate and becoming his country’s youngest ever scorer, but the forward was not unleashed on the wider footballing world until the quarter-final stage at the 1958 World Cup after arriving in Sweden with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
He netted against Wales and then bagged a second-half hat-trick against France in the semi-finals, with his legend cemented in the final.<\/p>\n
Pele, the 17-year-old with number 10 etched on his makeshift blue shirt, scored twice in a 5-2 win – the highest-scoring World Cup final on record.<\/p>\n
His first remains one of the showpiece’s all-time great goals, taking the ball on his chest and lofting it over a defender before volleying into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
It was Brazil’s first World Cup triumph, and Pele delivered on a promise he made to his father after the ‘Maracanazo’ in 1950, when Uruguay stunned Brazil in Rio.<\/p>\n
“I remember seeing him sitting next to the radio, sobbing,” Pele later told Fifa. “And he said to me, ‘Brazil have lost the World Cup’.<\/p>\n
“I remember jokingly saying to him, ‘Don’t cry, dad \u2013 I’ll win the World Cup for you’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n