Readers, it’s time to meet your Final Four.
First, the results from last time out, which featured three of the top four seeds falling at the same hurdle:
#1 seed Ronaldinho vs. Venezuela 1999 (40%) vs. #41 seed Pelé vs. Mexico 1962 (60%)
#4 seed Roberto Carlos vs. France 1997 (49%) vs. #5 seed Pelé vs. Sweden 1958 (51%)
#2 seed Kaká vs. Argentina 2006 (34%) vs. #7 seed Éder vs. USSR 1982 (66%)
#3 seed Carlos Alberto vs. Italy 1970 (88%) vs. #22 seed Marta vs. USA 2007 (12%)
You can view the whole bracket here.
And now…
TODAY’S VOTING
Matchup 1: Pelé vs. Pelé
O Rei’s two greatest World Cup goals face off against each other.
Coming in as the higher seed, we have the more famous of his two goals in the 1958 World Cup final against Sweden, where he lifted the ball over a defender’s head to make it 3-1 in a 5-2 victory. (The video still can’t be embedded, so watch it here.)
The (much) lower seed is his only goal from an injury-shortened 1962 World Cup, where he tore through four Mexican defenders to cap off a 2-0 victory in the opening match against Mexico.
Matchup 2: Jogo Bonito vs. Jogo Bonito
A quintessential Telê Santana goal faces the most famous team goal in Brazil’s history.
The higher seed is that Carlos Alberto goal that capped off the 1970 World Cup final against Italy.
The lower seed is Éder’s 88th-minute winner against the USSR in the first match of the 1982 World Cup.
The losers will go to a third-place matchup, where I will also show off a few of the best goals that weren’t even nominated. I intend to close the voting and put up that post late next Sunday, August 9.
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