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Taça das Nações - Final
Placings
|
|
Team |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
Pts |
|
Argentina |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
+6 |
6 |
|
Brazil |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
5 |
+4 |
4 |
|
England |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
1 |
|
Portugal |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
1 |
|
Taça das Nações -
Matches |
|
|
1 |
30 May 1964 -
Brazil 5
England 1 [1-0]
Estádio
Municipal,
Rio de Janeiro
(77,000) |
Rinaldo (2), Pelé, Julinho, Roberto Dias
Greaves |
AL |
|
2 |
31 May 1964 -
Argentina 2
Portugal 0 [0-0]
Estádio
Municipal,
Rio de Janeiro (40,000) |
|
|
3 |
3 June 1964 -
Brazil 0
Argentina 3 [0-1]
Estádio Pacaembu, São Paulo (60,000) |
|
|
4 |
4 June 1964 -
England
1
Portugal 1 [0-1]
Estádio Pacaembu, São Paulo
(25,000) |
Hunt
Peres |
ND |
|
5 |
6 June 1964 -
Argentina 1
England 0 [0-0]
Estádio
Municipal,
Rio de Janeiro
(15,000) |
Rojas |
NL |
 Torres |
|
6 |
31 May 1964 -
Brazil 4
Portugal 1 [2-1]
Estádio
Municipal,
Rio de Janeiro (60,000) |
Pelé, Jairzinho,
Gérson (2)
Coluna |
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Notes
This tournament commemorated the Brazilian Football
Association’s 50th anniversary. It was also called the Brazilian Jubilee Tournament
and heralded as the "Little World Cup." England manager Alf
Ramsey, already immersed in preparing for the World Cup finals still two
years away, used the tournament to measure his side against South American
opposition and received a rude awakening.
The attendance figures for England's
three matches given in Mike Payne, England: The Complete
Post-War Record, pp. 197-98 (1993)--Brazil 110,000, Portugal 70,000 and Argentina
95,000--are much larger than those stated in Ron Hockings & Keir Radnedge, Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 194, vol. 2, p. 24 (1993)--Brazil
77,000, Portugal 25,000 and Argentina 15,000.
Sources
Almanaque do Futebol Brasileiro website
Bowler, Dave, "Winning Isn’t
Everything ...": A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey,
pp. 168-76 (Victor Gollancz,
Cassell Group, London, 1998)
Green Flag Team England official but
defunct website
Heatley, Michael & Ian Welch, England
Football, p. 28 (Dial House, Shepperton, Surrey, England, 1996)
Hockings, Ron & Keir Radnedge, Nations
of Europe, vol. 1, p. 189, vol. 2, p. 160 (Articulate, Ernsworth, Hampshire, U.K.,
1993)
McColl, Graham, England: The Alf Ramsey
Years, p. 19 (Chameleon Books, André Deutsch Ltd., London, 1998)
Payne, Mike, England: The Complete
Post-War Record, pp. 118-9 (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Wolstenholme, Kenneth, They Think
It’s All Over . . . : Memories of the Greatest Day in English Football,
pp. 28-32 (Robson Books, London, 1996)
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