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About Brazil 1970
Brazil’s 1970 national team is widely regarded as one of the most complete teams football has ever produced. Brazil had already lifted the World Cup twice, in 1958 and 1962, with the already legendary Pelé central to both triumphs. The 1958 tournament announced him to the world as a teenage phenomenon and approaching the twilight of his top flight career by 1970, Pelé still remained the beating heart of an extraordinary team.
Brazil 1970 World Cup Team Signed Print
Unit Number 001 = Please enquire by email.
Units Numbered 002-010 = US$3450
Units Numbered 011-045 = US$2995
A 16” x 20” photographic Limited Edition Print shows the line up of the Brazilian and Italian teams at the FIFA World Cup Final at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on 21 June 1970.
The print is a first-generation original from the archive of an established UK photographic agency.
The Build-up
The road to Mexico City was far from smooth. Just months before the tournament, Brazil stumbled to a 1–1 draw in a friendly against Bangu, a modest Rio-based club. On a wet evening outside the city, the performance drew loud jeers from supporters, only highlighting growing doubts about their team’s readiness.
As training began, Brazil had no guarantees of success. Ninety-nine days later, Carlos Alberto lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at a jubilant Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. He had sealed a 4–1 victory over Italy with a goal that capped one of the most celebrated footballing victories ever. The win cemented the nation’s footballing legacy as an all-time great, three-times victorious World Cup-winning team.
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Journey
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Journey
Brazil's 1970 Journey
To millions of fans around the world, they were, quite simply, the greatest group of players ever assembled. And when Gloria’s Paul Joseph set out to track down every surviving member of Brazil's 1970 World Cup team, it was to become the 40,000-mile adventure of a lifetime.
Gloria secured the rights to produce a giant-sized, limited-edition version of Pelé's official autobiography. Each volume would be hand-signed by the man himself and contain autobiographical text, plus rarely seen images and newly commissioned journalism by eminent football writers.
"A series of incandescent performances that bestowed upon them the title, still unchallenged, of the best international
team ever seen."
— Richard Williams, The Guardian, 2022
The Artwork
The edition is limited to only 45 copies and no further such prints exist, except as part of the sold out “Carnival Edition” of the official “Pelé” limited edition published in 2006.
The signatures were secured in 2006. Each print is hologrammed and numbered out of 45 in ink on the reverse and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the CEO of Gloria.