Top 3 World Cup Goals That Went Under The Radar

#1 Pele (Brazil) vs Sweden - 1958 World Cup

The pitch was soaked. Footballers were not supposed to have a great day. But then again Pele was not your everyday footballer, was he? The then young genius scored one of the greatest World Cup goals ever in Brazil's humbling of Sweden in the 1958 World Cup final.

Sweden were the hosts of the tournament and they'd have fancied their chances against the Brazilians. But they were only going to get introduced to the magic of the ginga.

Pele chests down a cross inside the box as neatly as any forward would like and then goes ahead and dinks the ball over the approaching centreback, thereby robbing him of dignity before thumping it into the bottom corner to round off a spectacle.

The great player himself has had his say on the goal,

“When I passed to Didi, I made as if I was going to run forward but turned back instead. That confused the defender a little and he let the ball come through to me. When I controlled it on my chest he thought I was going to shoot. I got my foot on it and flicked it over his head, which was something the Europeans weren’t used to. They always tried to close you down because they were used to people shooting straightaway. I hit the ball before it touched the ground and in it went. It was one of the most beautiful goals of my career.”

It still remains one of the most underrated goals to have been scored in a World Cup. It happened in the final, for crying out loud.

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