Pele, Maradona or Messi at No 1? The 50 greatest players in World Cup history

With just over two weeks until the 23rd men’s Fifa World Cup in North America, The Independent sports team ranks the top-50 ...

Brazil at the World Cups: 1978, unbeaten and moral winners

CBF ArchiveThe World Cup hosted by Argentina in 1978 marked the first major achievement of their South American neighbors.
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Greatest Of All Time: World Cup Goals – Carlos Alberto, Diego Maradona, Dennis Bergkamp and more

This article is part of our Greatest Of All Time series. We will be looking back at previous World Cup tournaments and identifying the GOATs within a number of different categories. There have been ...
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The top 15 goal scorers in World Cup history

Even those who end up as defenders and shot-stoppers started with the same dream: to score for their nation at the World Cup. It’s the pinnacle of the sport, with goals on soccer‘s grandest stage ...