:00:24. > :00:25.the birthplace of football, but where it bloos somed. Football, the
:00:26. > :00:37.Brazilian way. -- blossomed. COMMENTATOR: Pele, and he scores!
:00:38. > :00:41.The yellow and the green, not just a shirt. To wear it, is to be wrapped
:00:42. > :00:47.up in a dream of how the game can be played.
:00:48. > :00:53.COMMENTATOR: He's found the net! How do they do it? I'll be asking them.
:00:54. > :00:57.Asking the best of the best, Pele and Ronaldo, life inside that shirt.
:00:58. > :01:02.To me it was like a dream to be in the national team of Brazil. Winning
:01:03. > :01:08.World Cup finals and losing them. Disaster. If we got to the final we
:01:09. > :01:12.would be really happy. Yeah. For the rest of the world, yes. Not for us.
:01:13. > :01:15.How did it happen? How was this game, made in Britain, transformed
:01:16. > :01:31.in this tropical wonder land? From here on the beach to carnival,
:01:32. > :01:35.Samba and the Amazonian rainforest, there are hundreds of reasons to
:01:36. > :01:40.love Brazil, but none quite as attractive as their country's
:01:41. > :01:47.football team and the way they play. COMMENTATOR: Ronaldo! Oh, what do
:01:48. > :01:53.you say about that? ! Extraordinary. They have had the players that
:01:54. > :01:58.everyone inspires to be, from Pele, it Zico. You could go on and on. The
:01:59. > :02:03.way they played was just dazzling. This is a team from another planet.
:02:04. > :02:08.When you talk about the beautiful game, as much as lots of teams may
:02:09. > :02:16.play like Brazil, you still think about Brazil. We go, it's like
:02:17. > :02:20.watching Brazil. It's a unique way of playing. Everybody wants to play
:02:21. > :02:23.against Brazil. The hosts of this year's World Cup have played in
:02:24. > :02:30.every tournament, and won it more than anyone else.
:02:31. > :02:34.COMMENTATOR: The world's most successful football nation, Brazil,
:02:35. > :02:38.win it for the fifth time. It's not just the fact of winning five World
:02:39. > :02:45.Cups, it's the matter of winning in style.
:02:46. > :02:54.COMMENTATOR: What a cracker! My mission is to explore the or begins
:02:55. > :02:58.of Brazil's beautiful game. Why do they play the way they do? What does
:02:59. > :03:02.it take to be so successful? Is it really as simple as they've made it
:03:03. > :03:06.look? How does it feel to win and win beautifully?
:03:07. > :03:10.COMMENTATOR: The first chance of the match. And, he scores! It's more
:03:11. > :03:16.than just what happens on the field, this goes to the heart of what
:03:17. > :03:21.Brazil, the country, is all about. They love life. You know, which is a
:03:22. > :03:27.terrible old cliche. They really do. You don't just kick the ball you do
:03:28. > :03:32.wonderful keepy uppy. Even though we didn't create football, it looks
:03:33. > :03:35.like we did. There is a bit of archeology here, digging into the
:03:36. > :03:45.rich pickings of the country that reinvented a sport. The style of
:03:46. > :03:49.play has something to do with the sharpness that the kid, born on the
:03:50. > :03:54.wrong side of the tracks, needs to get by. There are also some
:03:55. > :04:04.uncomfortable findings along the way. Unconscious for three or four
:04:05. > :04:08.minutes. Unconscious for three or four minutes. Can it be, that in
:04:09. > :04:14.this home of the beautiful game, failure is not an option? When
:04:15. > :04:19.Brazil lost 1950 World Cup, it was not seen as just a sporting
:04:20. > :04:30.disaster, it was a failure of its people. For many of us, our love
:04:31. > :04:34.affair with Brazil began 44 years ago when, in 1970, a certain Pele
:04:35. > :04:39.rolled a certain pass to one Carlos Alberto. The gentle pass, the power
:04:40. > :04:44.of the finish, this was the light and shade, the slow and the quick of
:04:45. > :04:49.a new way of playing. COMMENTATOR: That was delightful
:04:50. > :04:55.football. 1970 was the first World Cup to be televised in colour. We
:04:56. > :05:01.knew the names of the best players on the planet. Now, they lit up
:05:02. > :05:05.before our eyes. COMMENTATOR: Pele. A new standard
:05:06. > :05:09.was set. That's the trouble with press dents, what comes next? How
:05:10. > :05:18.can you beat that? COMMENTATOR: This is great stuff.
:05:19. > :05:28.Pele. Spearheaded by Pele, this was the team that defined the Brazilian
:05:29. > :05:32.way of playing. Who better to analyse Brazil than the spearhead
:05:33. > :05:43.himself, known by just one short name - the most famous in the game.
:05:44. > :05:48.Are you OK? Great, you. He was Fine. Born in 1940 with a longer name,
:05:49. > :05:54.Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but he was Pele. Even in 19a 58, aged just
:05:55. > :05:59.17, the youngest ever scorer in a World Cup final. He won three World
:06:00. > :06:06.Cups and scored over 1,000 goals in almost as many matches for his clubs
:06:07. > :06:09.and country. When you do think of Brazil, Pele's name comes in there.
:06:10. > :06:13.Hard not to. He is on the front of every package you look at and every
:06:14. > :06:18.advertisement they do. Great ambassador for the game. To win the
:06:19. > :06:23.World Cup at 17 years old... And be an integral part of that team, you
:06:24. > :06:27.can't fail to be impressed. He is a supreme footballer in all sense of
:06:28. > :06:30.the world, he was 5 foot 8, great in the air, great control, speed,
:06:31. > :06:36.strength, skill. Everything, awareness. Could play in midfield,
:06:37. > :06:41.as much as he is a goalscorer. COMMENTATOR: Pele! No matter where
:06:42. > :06:48.you go, it's one name that will be remembered as the greatest. That's
:06:49. > :06:54.Edson Arantes do Nascimento. That's the one. That's Pele. You were so
:06:55. > :07:01.young in the 1958 World Cup, what was it like getting into the team,
:07:02. > :07:07.being that young and so successful? A lot of time people say - oh, was
:07:08. > :07:12.very difficult for you because you were very young. I didn't have this
:07:13. > :07:17.(inaudible) to win the World Cup. To me, it was like a dream to be in the
:07:18. > :07:22.national team of Brazil. I just want to be there. 17 years old, scored a
:07:23. > :07:26.goal in the quarter-final, three goals in the semi-final, of course,
:07:27. > :07:30.that famous goal in the final. That is one of the goals that must stand
:07:31. > :07:39.out in your career? Oh, yeah. No doubt. No doubt. Because I think
:07:40. > :07:45.that time, in Europe, even in Brazil, I think was one of the first
:07:46. > :07:49.moments that people saw the game, the dribbling like this. For me it
:07:50. > :07:53.was not news. I used to do this in training. For all over the world,
:07:54. > :07:58.for other people, it was the first time they saw the World Cup. It was
:07:59. > :08:03.fantastic. The most important than that, people don't know what was
:08:04. > :08:08.Brazil, where was Brazil. But to win this World Cup, then Brazil become
:08:09. > :08:14.well-known all over the world. Everybody, after the final, they
:08:15. > :08:19.started to read, to understand where was Brazil. 62, you won the World
:08:20. > :08:22.Cup again. You got injured early in the tournament. 66 you were kicked
:08:23. > :08:26.out of the tournament. It was terrible what happened to you. Chen
:08:27. > :08:31.he was heavily brought down again, a second time. Unnecessarily so too.
:08:32. > :08:36.Do you feel angry at that at all, looking back? You were at your prime
:08:37. > :08:44.then? It was very, very sad. I think I'm going to stop to play football.
:08:45. > :08:49.I was so depressed. But, fortunately, it passed. You changed
:08:50. > :08:55.your mind before the 1970 World Cup, thankfully? Anybody of my age, or
:08:56. > :08:59.older, remembers 1970, the Brazil side, as we think the best side
:09:00. > :09:07.ever. Would you agree? I agree. I think the 58 we have individual
:09:08. > :09:13.players. Maybe more and better than 70, but as a team, we were perfect
:09:14. > :09:16.team. Were brilliant moments from you in that World Cup. There are two
:09:17. > :09:21.moments, for me, that stand out. Where you didn't score. One was the
:09:22. > :09:23.long-range shot against Czechoslovakia from the half-way
:09:24. > :09:28.line, it was so close. The other one, where you dummied the
:09:29. > :09:39.goalkeeper against Uruguay. COMMENTATOR: What genius! I was in
:09:40. > :09:43.China two weeks ago, they showed the beautiful moment. The goals they
:09:44. > :09:50.didn't show. I said, listen, I scored more than 1,000 goals. I so
:09:51. > :09:54.wish that had of been a goal. We have marvelled at Brazilian football
:09:55. > :09:58.over the years. It is played with great style. Where do you think that
:09:59. > :10:03.culture of beautiful football comes from, Pele? I think it comes from
:10:04. > :10:11.the barefoot, the kids who play on the beach and on the streets. I
:10:12. > :10:18.think that's the reason the football is spectacular than in Europe or in
:10:19. > :10:24.the rich countries. He was what he was called The King. Did we ever see
:10:25. > :10:28.him at his, very, very best? There is a theory, held by Brazilian based
:10:29. > :10:35.journalist, Tim Vickery, that we didn't. Great tragedy of Pele in the
:10:36. > :10:39.World Cup. He is so identified with the tournament, the World Cup never
:10:40. > :10:44.saw the best of Pele. The best Pele is around the mark of 62/63. Watch
:10:45. > :10:49.him. He is like a force of nature. The best goal that I think he scored
:10:50. > :10:55.in the World Cup came in 1962, in the opening game against Mexico.
:10:56. > :11:03.COMMENTATOR: A great goal. A superb goal by Pele. 62, could have been,
:11:04. > :11:07.for Pele, what 86 was for Maradona, when you are seeing a magnificent
:11:08. > :11:10.footballer right at the peak of his powers. He got injured in the next
:11:11. > :11:16.game. He played no further part in the tournament. That, I think, is
:11:17. > :11:19.very sad because that Pele, the Pele of 62, could have been the greatest
:11:20. > :11:25.thing that we ever saw in a World Cup. What the world did see was
:11:26. > :11:32.enough. Enough to guarantee a life after football. As a pin-up,
:11:33. > :11:40.politician, businessman, FIFA ambassador, Pele, one short name
:11:41. > :11:44.that says everything about Brazil. For Brazilians, Pele is not the only
:11:45. > :11:49.one. We tend to talk of Brazil, the great 12 years where they won three
:11:50. > :11:56.World Cup as the Pele years. In Brazil they call them the Pele and
:11:57. > :12:04.the Garrincha years. In Brazil Pele and gash together made Brazil great.
:12:05. > :12:10.Born in 1933, Manuel Francisco dos Santos, or simply Garrincha, won two
:12:11. > :12:19.World Cups. Physically, he was no Pele. He was anything but imposing.
:12:20. > :12:24.He was born slight redeformed one bow leg and knock knee. I watched
:12:25. > :12:28.videos of him in 1958. He was incredible. When you talk about
:12:29. > :12:32.modern wingers do. Back then, wingers, you get your head down, you
:12:33. > :12:35.put crosses in. He was doing stepovers and skilful things and his
:12:36. > :12:40.change of pace and change of direction, as well as scoring goals.
:12:41. > :12:49.COMMENTATOR: Garrincha. It's a goal. A beautiful goal by Garrincha.
:12:50. > :12:56.Garrincha was special because he improvised a lot of the games, a lot
:12:57. > :13:01.of the play. He was a player who has brilliant talent, you know.
:13:02. > :13:05.Garrincha, from being, you know, the archetypecle skilful Brazilian. Pele
:13:06. > :13:09.wasn't that. He had great skills. What we think about Brazil are silky
:13:10. > :13:13.tricks. Pele wasn't like that. He was very skilful. In terms of being
:13:14. > :13:18.eye-catching, Garrincha obviously was the one. He was a real
:13:19. > :13:28.hard-working up-and-down British-type of a player, if you
:13:29. > :13:33.like. Garrincha was the superstar. TRANSLATION: He was amazing. He
:13:34. > :13:40.dribbled like you wouldn't believe it. I was at the barber and he said
:13:41. > :13:47.if Garrincha dribbel was magic tricks. I said, they are all true.
:13:48. > :13:53.That was just Garrincha. We symbolise Brazil. Slightly better
:13:54. > :13:59.than Pele did because he was the person who made you look. He had
:14:00. > :14:05.this amazing dribbels, he was playing for playing sake. He had
:14:06. > :14:09.fun. There was the Garrincha way on the field, there was something about
:14:10. > :14:19.the way he went about living his life off the field. I think he loved
:14:20. > :14:25.(inaudible) more than Pele. In that time Brazil was a country looking
:14:26. > :14:28.for his I accidenty. The real Brazilianian was Garrincha, not
:14:29. > :14:32.Pele. Garrincha was the crazy one, disorganised. Ass Garrincha was
:14:33. > :14:37.two-days before the final match disappeared and go to fish 100
:14:38. > :14:41.kilometres from the hotel. The Brazilians recognised themselves in
:14:42. > :14:45.players like that and that moment. Pele conquered the world The King
:14:46. > :14:47.revelling in the limelight for Garrincha, it was more of a
:14:48. > :15:08.struggle. tired after the training, I did find
:15:09. > :15:14.the attention overwhelming. Garrincha is the Brazilian George
:15:15. > :15:18.Best. An unbelievably talented individual. But someone whose career
:15:19. > :15:28.at the top level was relatively short. Because of similar demons. In
:15:29. > :15:36.1983, at the age of 49, Garrincha died, an impoverished alcoholic. His
:15:37. > :15:43.funeral procession brought the road to a standstill. It is part of us,
:15:44. > :15:51.you know, to create this fantastic and amazing player we have Pele and
:15:52. > :15:57.Garrincha and Ronaldo and Neymar and it is difficult to understand how we
:15:58. > :16:04.produce this kind of player, but it is part of our tradition, it is part
:16:05. > :16:07.of our mentality. It is in our blood. I think it is something that
:16:08. > :16:16.comes from the childhood, you know, every kid in Brazil wants to play
:16:17. > :16:21.soccer. No country can keep producing players to rival Pele or
:16:22. > :16:28.Garrincha, can it? Brazil, it seems, can and there is one player I
:16:29. > :16:38.couldn't wait to meet! Nice to see you. Nice to see you too. How are
:16:39. > :16:43.you? Good. Ronaldo played 98 times for Brazil, scoring 62 goals and
:16:44. > :16:48.winning two Cup World Cups, he collected a golden boot and became
:16:49. > :16:52.the highest goal scorer in World Cup history.
:16:53. > :16:59.COMMENTATOR: And it is a moment of history for Ronaldo. He is now out
:17:00. > :17:05.on his own as the World Cup's all time top goal scorer. Ronaldo
:17:06. > :17:10.remains one of the enigmas of all time. There is controversy here. The
:17:11. > :17:18.1998 final, but first, his rise to the top from the bottom. He was born
:17:19. > :17:23.in one of the poorest parts of Rio. I presume most Brazilian boys when
:17:24. > :17:28.they grow up, they want to play for Brazil when they are older? We grow
:17:29. > :17:35.up thinking about being a football player because most of Brazil are
:17:36. > :17:44.poor and we see them at the football, a great opportunity to be
:17:45. > :17:50.a big star. So you can help your family and you can buy things.
:17:51. > :17:59.Ronaldo dropped out of school when he was 11. But he was soon giving
:18:00. > :18:04.masterclasses to the watching world. We very much admire the Brazilian
:18:05. > :18:07.style of football and people say when we play football there is music
:18:08. > :18:19.in the dressing room and everybody is dancing. Is it really like that?
:18:20. > :18:24.Yes, yeah. Yeah. But it's not dis illusioned to win. You cannot go
:18:25. > :18:33.into an England team and put Brazilian music or hip-hop... We
:18:34. > :18:39.can't dance! We did that and the guys play now, they're still doing
:18:40. > :18:47.it just because we have fun. We are very happy people and everything we
:18:48. > :18:54.do, we do with love and with our hearts. Ronaldo, a talent, a rare
:18:55. > :18:58.genius, but also part of some greater shared experience of being
:18:59. > :19:03.Brazilian. Everyone in this land of 200 million people seems to love
:19:04. > :19:11.life out loud. One man who knows and loves Brazil is Michael Palin, the
:19:12. > :19:14.globetrotter and football fan spent five months exploring just about
:19:15. > :19:19.every corner of the country. You spent a lot of time in Brazil. Is it
:19:20. > :19:25.a country you warmed to? Oh yeah. And it is such an easy place to
:19:26. > :19:29.enjoy. All the sort of, you know, the kind of hang-ups and
:19:30. > :19:35.restrictions and sort of conditions of life up in the Northern
:19:36. > :19:38.Hemisphere where you have got cold weather and rain, suddenly you go to
:19:39. > :19:43.Brazil and everybody seems to be having a good time. Not entirely,
:19:44. > :19:49.but it does feel like a country that's very, very free and open and
:19:50. > :19:54.got this feeling of celebration. The whole place erupts at night. I've
:19:55. > :19:58.never known such a noisy country. It is incredibly noisy and during the
:19:59. > :20:02.World Cup there will be full volume. How would you describe Brazil
:20:03. > :20:07.culturally? It's very out going. They don't
:20:08. > :20:12.worry too much about what happened in the past. They're not speculating
:20:13. > :20:16.too much about the future. They do live very much for the day. And most
:20:17. > :20:20.of the time the sun shines, not all the time, but the sun does shine and
:20:21. > :20:24.the beaches are great, you must wake-up every morning and think,
:20:25. > :20:28."Hey, I'm in a very blessed country." But at the same time,
:20:29. > :20:36.there are cracks between the very rich and the very poor and that's
:20:37. > :20:40.very clear and it will be interesting to see how that plays
:20:41. > :20:45.out when the eyes of the world are on the country. It has been involved
:20:46. > :20:54.in a lot of your work, hasn't it? Yes.
:20:55. > :21:05.I just think all of us in Python, with the possible exception of Terry
:21:06. > :21:14.Jones and Liam who throws boom ranges and things -- boomerangs, but
:21:15. > :21:25.we were brought up with football. 8-1. 8 bloody one.
:21:26. > :21:32.Do you think the way that Brazil play football this flamboyant style
:21:33. > :21:36.is a reflection of their personalities of the people of
:21:37. > :21:41.Brazil? Yeah, I think they love life, you know, which is a terrible
:21:42. > :21:47.old cliche, but they really do, and they want to celebrate it so you
:21:48. > :21:51.don't just kick the ball, you do some wonderful keepy uppy and pass
:21:52. > :21:58.it fast and you celebrate the game itself, it is not a dull game in
:21:59. > :22:06.Brazil. Football is very democratic. You don't need money to play
:22:07. > :22:12.football. We are Third World in Brazil. Our kids can play football.
:22:13. > :22:15.They take old socks and they start with the passion. Brazil's passion
:22:16. > :22:29.for football is obvious. They are just as devoted though to their
:22:30. > :22:38.music. Many love both. Brazilian music is a mixture of the Indian
:22:39. > :22:48.music and the African music and Brazil and European music. So
:22:49. > :22:54.Brazilian music is a pot of a mixture of all these musics and
:22:55. > :22:58.influences. More slaves went to Brazil than went to the North
:22:59. > :23:05.Americas. The slaves weren't allowed drums because it was godless music,
:23:06. > :23:13.but the Brazilians kept the music and America had the blues, and
:23:14. > :23:22.Brazil has always celebrated life and freedom. Samba has the African
:23:23. > :23:32.influences of the beats. It is very energetic. I came to Brazil about 20
:23:33. > :23:37.times mainly for musical reasons. My favourite thing about Brazil is
:23:38. > :23:40.Brazilians. It is the soul of the Brazilians and the passion that they
:23:41. > :23:47.have and especially for music and for football. We can move our body
:23:48. > :23:53.in a way that it looks free and so I think it comes to the football in a
:23:54. > :24:00.very good way because you see them playing and it's different. You see
:24:01. > :24:05.the connections between them. It looks like they are dancing e g ing
:24:06. > :24:11.with the ball, but the way they play football, it's kind of a dance. The
:24:12. > :24:19.romantic notion that they are all whispering a samba to each other as
:24:20. > :24:23.they pass the ball, no. It is more like the response of the samba
:24:24. > :24:32.schools where they go. It's the way they play off each other. I'll go
:24:33. > :24:37.like that and I'll go like that. I can remember when we were riding in
:24:38. > :24:40.a bus for a match and we were dancing and singing inside the bus.
:24:41. > :24:43.COMMENTATOR: On the national team we have had this tradition of singing
:24:44. > :24:49.and being close together and especially on our way to the
:24:50. > :24:53.stadium. It is in the rhythm, play your music like this and it is bound
:24:54. > :24:57.to influence the way you play your football. It is so very Brazilian.
:24:58. > :25:06.But what's more remarkable is that the roots of Brazil's beautiful game
:25:07. > :25:10.may just lie in Britain. This historian gives lectures around the
:25:11. > :25:16.world on the origins of football in Brazil. There are many origins of
:25:17. > :25:20.how football started in Brazil. The most accepted is that British
:25:21. > :25:28.gentlemen came to Brazil early last century and they brought to Brazil
:25:29. > :25:31.many sports and among them was football the country a large as
:25:32. > :25:38.Brazil, it is difficult to say that just one person has a major role in
:25:39. > :25:45.bringing a great phenomenon as football to the country. But it was
:25:46. > :25:53.important to have created the form of football in Brazil. For many,
:25:54. > :25:58.football arrived in Brazil in 1894 when Charles Miller stepped off a
:25:59. > :26:04.steamer in Sao Paulo armed with two foblets and a rule -- footballs and
:26:05. > :26:08.a rule book. Charles had been sent to Southampton. Played for the club
:26:09. > :26:12.that would become the Premier League Southampton of today. He was a
:26:13. > :26:16.football nut. COMMENTATOR: He used to say imagine
:26:17. > :26:21.the despair of the football enthusiast who goes away for the
:26:22. > :26:25.weekend and takes his ball along. Imagine his despair knowing he was
:26:26. > :26:29.coming back to Brazil and he wouldn't find here the beloved sport
:26:30. > :26:34.he used to play. So the fact that he brought along the rules of the game
:26:35. > :26:40.and the ball suggests it was clear what his intention was. I will go
:26:41. > :26:44.back to Brazil and if no one is playing this sport there, I will
:26:45. > :26:50.feature them all because I want to go and play it for a long, long
:26:51. > :26:56.time. In the early years in Brazil, one of Brazil's most prominent
:26:57. > :27:01.writers, he said, you know, this football, it will never catch on. We
:27:02. > :27:06.don't need this foreign thing! It is a statement which seems ridiculous
:27:07. > :27:15.now, but sometimes we take it for granted. How did this thing, little
:27:16. > :27:21.more than 120 years in Brazil, how did it become so associated with the
:27:22. > :27:26.Brazilian nation? It is introduced by the British so
:27:27. > :27:32.it comes with first world prestige and it is first taken up by the
:27:33. > :27:40.Brazilian elite, but then it goes down the social scale. It becomes
:27:41. > :27:46.reinterpreted by the locals. TRANSLATION: I have got a few
:27:47. > :27:53.letters from my grandad written after his return to Brazil. He
:27:54. > :27:58.writes from he can gland. England. He writes with surprise at the rate
:27:59. > :28:03.football was spreading across Brazil. Unfortunately, he died in
:28:04. > :28:08.1953 and died without ever seeing Brazil world champions. He also
:28:09. > :28:12.never had the pleasure of seeing Pele play football, but if he was
:28:13. > :28:20.still alive I imagine he would be very happy with all of this.
:28:21. > :28:24.Football is a cultural manifestationment even though we -
:28:25. > :28:28.manifestation, even though we didn't create football, it looks like we
:28:29. > :28:32.did. Brazil turned it into a South American art form. Artistry that
:28:33. > :28:37.delights, but it also strikes fear into their opponents. Playing
:28:38. > :28:47.against Brazil knowing their history, it was daunting. I managed
:28:48. > :28:51.to score against Brazil at Wembley, but another Englishman scored
:28:52. > :28:58.against them with a little more style and at the home of Brazilian
:28:59. > :29:03.football. Knowing the hole history of Brazilian football. To score
:29:04. > :29:09.against Brazil is fantastic. John Barnes on the left-hand side. He
:29:10. > :29:14.could get net one here. He has gone all the way through. What a
:29:15. > :29:21.brilliant goal by John Barnes. That was magnificent.
:29:22. > :29:25.Had it been like a World Cup final someone would have tackled me. I am
:29:26. > :29:30.being unkind to my receive. Rather than saying, what a great goal it
:29:31. > :29:35.was. I was saying the Brazilians were on holiday or drunk. That is
:29:36. > :29:41.why they let me run through. A lot of teams might play like Brazil, but
:29:42. > :29:45.you still think about Brazil. I remember doing one of their games
:29:46. > :29:48.and the pavements were absolutely packed with Brazilian supporters.
:29:49. > :29:52.You got a sense then of what the World Cup meant to them. I think
:29:53. > :29:58.that is where the Brazilians really loved playing. That is where Gordan
:29:59. > :30:01.Banks made his fantastic save from Pele.
:30:02. > :30:06.COMMENTATOR: What a save? When he came over to England he said, "I
:30:07. > :30:12.scored over 1,000 goals in my career, where I go every where in
:30:13. > :30:16.the world people talk about those goals. When I come to England they
:30:17. > :30:20.talk about that save you made." It is something special because he was
:30:21. > :30:25.someone very special. They had a fantastic sad Other play side.
:30:26. > :30:30.Players have less pleasant memories of losing to Brazil in the 1982
:30:31. > :30:36.World Cup. I can remember relined up before the game. 10 meters from the
:30:37. > :30:43.fence. There were the Brazilian supporters. I can remember I was
:30:44. > :30:48.here. Linesman, referee, linesman, the rest of them. We were covered in
:30:49. > :30:58.sweat. I looked there. I looked at these guys. Not a bead of sweat.
:30:59. > :31:04.They are swaying their hips to the girls behind the fence. I'm
:31:05. > :31:12.thinking, "we're in trouble here" in the Brazil game the worse thing we
:31:13. > :31:19.did was score early. They were happy. 0-0. We scored. It was like
:31:20. > :31:25.getting hold of the lion's tail, wasn't it? They found another gear.
:31:26. > :31:36.They had fabulous players. Zico. COMMENTATOR: Zico. Socartes.
:31:37. > :31:45.COMMENTATOR: Socartes is in there. And now the shot. Dalglish. Red
:31:46. > :31:56.fairly comfortably there. Then who chipped in?
:31:57. > :32:05.COMMENTATOR: A little chip. Oh! What a brilliant goal! They were a great
:32:06. > :32:15.team. It was an incredible team. Zio, Socartes, Leonardo... It was a
:32:16. > :32:22.fantastic team. My idol and has still been Zico. I played against
:32:23. > :32:31.him three times. Great player. I was seeing him a lot. He was amazing. I
:32:32. > :32:38.always see him in the field and out of the field. He's, for me, the
:32:39. > :32:43.biggest idol. COMMENTATOR: And, Zico. What a
:32:44. > :32:47.cracker! We remember this team almost as fondly as the 1970 side
:32:48. > :32:51.because of the their midfield brilliance. Brazilians have a
:32:52. > :32:56.particular love for them because they played for freedom, while at
:32:57. > :33:05.home a military dictatorship was in firm control. They were people who
:33:06. > :33:10.understood the position in society. Socartes talked about democracy,
:33:11. > :33:14.discussing politics. Fighting for the rights of people. Even the
:33:15. > :33:18.supporters. Discussing things that the football player never discussed
:33:19. > :33:24.before. It was different personalities that mark a
:33:25. > :33:32.generation. Socartes is such a fascinating figure. He said, in an
:33:33. > :33:38.interview, after he'd retired, he said that those who only seek
:33:39. > :33:49.victory are just conformists. COMMENTATOR: Socartes. Magnificent
:33:50. > :33:54.goal. I'm sure in his heart of hearts, he would have loved to have
:33:55. > :33:59.won the 1982 World Cup. I would say the 82 World Cup was brilliant. It
:34:00. > :34:04.was maybe the last World Cup we played as a brilliant team. A
:34:05. > :34:09.brilliant, brilliant team. Unfortunately, in 82 we lost.
:34:10. > :34:15.TRANSLATION: Sometimes to win the World Cup you have to play with
:34:16. > :34:26.caution. This team only knew how to play beautifully, and didn't care
:34:27. > :34:30.about anything else. Zico's Brazil were playing with the Majesty of
:34:31. > :34:34.Pele's World Cup winners, undefeated. They only need a draw
:34:35. > :34:39.against Italy. It wasn't long before it began to go wrong.
:34:40. > :34:44.COMMENTATOR: 1-0 o to Italy, after only five minutes. Here's Socartes,
:34:45. > :34:52.pushing the ball forward to Zico. What a turn. Socartes is in here.
:34:53. > :35:05.Socartes! He scores the goal that sums up the philosophy of Brazilian
:35:06. > :35:10.football. Oh. 2-1. A lot of people look at the fact that the Italian
:35:11. > :35:14.Prague 'tissism against the silky skills of the Brazilians. Pragmatism
:35:15. > :35:17.won over. That is not necessarily true. They made a couple of
:35:18. > :35:29.mistakes. I don't believe you have to sacrifice style for substance.
:35:30. > :35:34.COMMENTATOR: In a good position. Still Falcao. He wipes out Italy's
:35:35. > :35:43.lead. Now, if the score was to stay like, this Brazil go through and
:35:44. > :35:56.Italy go out. And it's been turned in. It's 3-2 to Italy. This almost
:35:57. > :36:03.retro Ied listic side of 1982 loses. Conclusion. If we want to win again,
:36:04. > :36:08.we have to change a little bit. Zico described it as "the day football
:36:09. > :36:13.died." Here in Brazil many share the view that this was a defeat for the
:36:14. > :36:17.beautiful game. The team hadn't balanced defence with attack, and
:36:18. > :36:26.now faced a choice - to lose beautifully or win ugly. By 1994,
:36:27. > :36:30.Brazil were desperate for success. A young Leonardo, managed by Alan
:36:31. > :36:34.Pardew, swapped flair for a more measured approach. I think that
:36:35. > :36:39.Parreria was very, very intelligent in that moment because, it's true,
:36:40. > :36:45.you are Brazil. You have three World Cups winning. You have 24 years
:36:46. > :36:48.behind you that you didn't get it. The coach, Alan Pardew said, "the
:36:49. > :36:54.time for magic and dreams for football is over. We have to be more
:36:55. > :36:59.pragmatic." The big discussion was to play with two midfielders in
:37:00. > :37:03.front of the defence. The in Brazil it seems like three midfielders and
:37:04. > :37:09.two defending. What is this, you know? He knew he had the other
:37:10. > :37:15.matches. The you have some players who can decide the match at any
:37:16. > :37:24.moment. That's how it was in a tricky semi-final against Sweden.
:37:25. > :37:28.They weren't always easy on the eye but Parreria's pragmatists were
:37:29. > :37:31.through to the final, against the Masters of defence, their nemesis,
:37:32. > :37:39.Italy. Almost inevitably it went to penalties. For Italy it was normal,
:37:40. > :37:42.but not for us. In the past, the penalty kicks were a nightmare for
:37:43. > :37:51.all of us. COMMENTATOR: He has brought the team
:37:52. > :37:58.to the final. It's over the top! Brazil have won the World Cup of
:37:59. > :38:07.1994. To win a World Cup, I think, was a very, very important title for
:38:08. > :38:12.us because after that we restarted with Ronaldo, with Carlos, it was
:38:13. > :38:17.the opportunity for that players to grow up with, I don't know, the
:38:18. > :38:22.feeling that you are, again, number one. Because my generation it was a
:38:23. > :38:27.big weight for us. COMMENTATOR: For the fourth time,
:38:28. > :38:30.Brazil are the world champions of the beautiful game. It was an
:38:31. > :38:36.importantly victory for them, after 24 years. Although that team is
:38:37. > :38:40.still not remembered, certainly around the world, with quite the
:38:41. > :38:47.same affection as the team of 1982, which didn't win. What the
:38:48. > :38:51.Brazilians want, big spectacular and the win, both together. Perhaps only
:38:52. > :38:57.one, they prefer more the spectacular than the winning.
:38:58. > :39:04.Brazil, without soccer, would not be Brazil. Soccer is like Samba. It's
:39:05. > :39:08.very Brazilian. It's very part of us, you know. There is no weekend
:39:09. > :39:17.that I don't hear about football inside my house, you know. It's like
:39:18. > :39:22.a religion. It's very strong. Brazil is about to the host the World Cup.
:39:23. > :39:26.Brazilian TV host, Fernanda Lima will help welcome the world. There
:39:27. > :39:32.are strong emotions at work here, not just a love of the game. In the
:39:33. > :39:37.very deep I think we really want this World Cup. But we have a lot of
:39:38. > :39:47.social problems and the government that makes us feel the World Cup is
:39:48. > :39:53.not to be here, but it is. People are using this event to show their
:39:54. > :39:57.problems. To show what they want. I don't think that we will interrupt
:39:58. > :40:02.during the competition. People will be there. They want to dream during
:40:03. > :40:10.it. But I think that outside of that, people want to be listened.
:40:11. > :40:18.People are confused about the World Cup. People are thinking about World
:40:19. > :40:23.Cup whilst the solution for our problem is not the solution for our
:40:24. > :40:27.problem. The World Cup is a big opportunity to develop our country.
:40:28. > :40:32.If we think football belongs to us, we have to show the good football we
:40:33. > :40:38.have and the hospitality and the love we have for football. Brazil
:40:39. > :40:42.hosted the World Cup of 1950, even back then it was huge. Just like
:40:43. > :40:47.today, Brazil was determined to make the most of its opportunity. Tap
:40:48. > :40:53.into domestic pride, impress the outside world. 50 World Cup was the
:40:54. > :41:00.opportunity to show the world that we were very big. That you were a
:41:01. > :41:06.big country who can do big things. That is why we construct the biggest
:41:07. > :41:11.stadium in the world. Giant spaceship parked just north of the
:41:12. > :41:18.city centre. An extraordinary structure. This symbolises that
:41:19. > :41:26.Brazil is on the move. They had a wonderful team. Played fantastic
:41:27. > :41:30.football. Absolutely blew away the European journalist es who went out
:41:31. > :41:39.to cover the World Cup, but they lost in the final. Lost to Uruguay.
:41:40. > :41:46.They were coasting to win in the stadium. And, Uruguay scored. 2-1,
:41:47. > :41:53.they came from behind. They came from behind.
:41:54. > :42:00.TRANSLATION: has never It left my mind. I was there, doing my military
:42:01. > :42:05.service, everyone was crying at the stadium. The country was in
:42:06. > :42:14.mourning. I was nine years old. I remember my father crying and
:42:15. > :42:18.saying, "what happened?" He said "Brazil lost the World Cup" I was a
:42:19. > :42:26.little confused. Everyone thought they were going to win? Yes. I
:42:27. > :42:30.remember I said, "don't worry, I will win the World Cup for you." I
:42:31. > :42:35.knew some of the players and the coach from that team. They were
:42:36. > :42:41.never, ever allowed to forget that they lost that game. It was a burden
:42:42. > :42:50.that they had to carry for decades and decades afterwards. Barbosa,
:42:51. > :42:55.being the goalkeeper, he had a hard time living with that afterwards. In
:42:56. > :43:00.1993, when Brazil need to beat Uruguay to qualify for the 1994
:43:01. > :43:07.World Cup, he wasn't allowed to visit the Brazil players in case he
:43:08. > :43:14.brought bad luck. The final was terrible because you were almost
:43:15. > :43:19.there. What happened? Why? When Brazil lost 1950 World Cup, in the
:43:20. > :43:24.final, in the last-minutes, it was not seen as just a sporting
:43:25. > :43:32.disaster, it was a failure of its people. The shock of defeat on home
:43:33. > :43:36.soil also meant a change of kit. Brazil's football authorities
:43:37. > :43:41.decided that the team's tarnished white shirts should be replaced by
:43:42. > :43:48.the colours of the country's flag. The greens, the forest, the blue is
:43:49. > :43:56.the sky, the yellow is the big King, how powerful is that. There is no
:43:57. > :44:01.doubt when you put on your country's shirt for a first time in your
:44:02. > :44:06.country's competition it's unforgettable. It's like you go to
:44:07. > :44:14.the world with your country. You are marine. The other teams going to
:44:15. > :44:21.play against Brazil. They will look at it and feel the pressure. I think
:44:22. > :44:25.everybody gets scared when they see the colouring of the shirt. I think
:44:26. > :44:29.they get really scared. Not so scared, the marketing executives of
:44:30. > :44:44.global brands. Not frightened by a team or their shirts.
:44:45. > :44:49.to winning ways and signed a deal with Nike. The main asset of
:44:50. > :45:04.Brazil's 1998 World Cup squad was Ronaldo. He had taken himself off to
:45:05. > :45:10.Europe and was flourishing. I was just the biggest star for Brazil.
:45:11. > :45:15.Ronaldo was the biggest name in world football. As the tournament
:45:16. > :45:25.progressed, he was unstoppable. Ronaldo changed something in
:45:26. > :45:28.football because he started to do in 100 kilometre an hour, what people
:45:29. > :45:33.did before in 50. He changed the speed of football. Ronaldo was and
:45:34. > :45:38.still and will always remain for me as one of the greatest strikers that
:45:39. > :45:44.I have ever seen. Brazil, 13 goals in five matches. Now, a semifinal
:45:45. > :45:52.against the unbeaten Dutch. COMMENTATOR: It's Ronaldo. Ronaldo
:45:53. > :45:56.was a successor to Pele because Ronaldo was the most complete
:45:57. > :46:01.Brazilian player since Pele because he could score goals with his head
:46:02. > :46:09.and he could dribble around everyone. But the Dutch were no
:46:10. > :46:20.pushovers and it went to a penalty shoot-out and up stepped Ronaldo.
:46:21. > :46:26.When you play for Brazil, you have to win always. A lot of pressure
:46:27. > :46:31.always with the Brazilian team. Pressure on the Dutch. Has to score.
:46:32. > :46:37.He doesn't. The world champions go to defend their title in the final.
:46:38. > :46:42.The tournament was going brilliantly for you, wasn't it It was until the
:46:43. > :46:49.final! On paper, it was a dream final, Brazil the favourites against
:46:50. > :46:53.host nation, France. Nen Then in the moments before kick-off, all eyes
:46:54. > :46:58.strained to see what was written on a single piece of paper. We just had
:46:59. > :47:03.the surprise, I suppose the shock news that Ronaldo won't be in the
:47:04. > :47:09.Brazil 11 for tonight's match. That's the actual 11 here and you
:47:10. > :47:15.see that Ronaldo is a substitute. I got the team sheet in the studio. It
:47:16. > :47:21.didn't have him on it. It didn't have Ronaldo on it and we couldn't
:47:22. > :47:24.believe it. We said, "What's going on here?"
:47:25. > :47:28.COMMENTATOR: The scenes have been may ham and chaos. There were
:47:29. > :47:32.journalists and commentators trying to find out the truth behind it. It
:47:33. > :47:37.is big news for the French team because Ronaldo is very, very
:47:38. > :47:47.important for the Brazilian team. It was rumours about him being sick,
:47:48. > :47:52.being injured. So we thought it was to annoy the French team not knowing
:47:53. > :47:57.if the best player would interrupt or not. The biggest wind-up in World
:47:58. > :48:00.Cup football history has just hit the news because Ronaldo will play.
:48:01. > :48:07.There was a mistake in the team sheets. Suddenly another team sheet
:48:08. > :48:13.came out and he was back on it. We were holding up team sheets in
:48:14. > :48:18.front. Of the cam ka. Conspiracy theories raged, was this a mistake,
:48:19. > :48:22.a joke? Outrageous gamesmanship? What was really happening in the
:48:23. > :48:42.Brazilian team hotel? Only one person can say. I had a conversation
:48:43. > :48:48.after the lunch in the afternoon and I was unconscious for three or four
:48:49. > :48:55.minutes. So you were unconscious? No. Do know why you had this
:48:56. > :49:06.convulsion or this fit? No. Could it be the pressure or the nerves? It
:49:07. > :49:11.could be. You breathe, the competition, everything is about the
:49:12. > :49:19.competition. You cannot disconnect from the competition. It is a lot of
:49:20. > :49:30.pressure. Doctors called me into another room and he explained to me
:49:31. > :49:37.that I had a convulsion and that you will not play and I said, "No, it is
:49:38. > :49:47.not possible. I will play." We went to the hospital. I stayed there for
:49:48. > :49:52.three hours. I did everything you can imagine, tests, everything and
:49:53. > :50:00.no conclusion. I was all right. I was OK. It's like the convulsion, it
:50:01. > :50:04.never happened. Crowds filled the streets of Paris. Ronaldo's
:50:05. > :50:09.team-mates boarded the bus for the stadium, but the confidence that
:50:10. > :50:13.carried them to the film was gone -- final was gone.
:50:14. > :50:17.TRANSLATION: When Brazil leave the hotel for the match, it is all
:50:18. > :50:20.music, but on this day, it didn't happen. There was no music on the
:50:21. > :50:27.team bus and everyone, all the players, were asking about him on
:50:28. > :50:31.the bus. If you are in silence in Brazil, you are in fear.
:50:32. > :50:36.COMMENTATOR: Brazil have not come out to warm up on the pitch. We have
:50:37. > :50:44.not seen a single player. I got out from the hospital and I'm going to
:50:45. > :50:52.the stadium directly and I come later and I see Edmundo in my place.
:50:53. > :51:00.What did you say? Yeah, I understood because I was in the hospital, but I
:51:01. > :51:05.called and said, "Please, I have to play. I don't have nothing. I went
:51:06. > :51:09.to the hospital. Everything is fine with me. It's the final game. I'm
:51:10. > :51:14.fine. I'm OK." TRANSLATION: I was waiting for the
:51:15. > :51:23.doctor to make a call and he didn't say anything. No one said anything.
:51:24. > :51:33.I said, "Are you OK?" He said, "I'm not a kid." If there is 21 players,
:51:34. > :51:39.there is no problem. You can play. If it's Ronaldo, this is what
:51:40. > :51:45.happened. It is very complicated to manage that situation, organising
:51:46. > :51:51.the match without Ronaldo, you prepared everything with Edmundo and
:51:52. > :51:57.hard marks and everything and then you change and you have a problem
:51:58. > :52:05.and it was like that. Our organisation had changed. I don't
:52:06. > :52:10.want to say that we lost because we had a problem, but it's impossible
:52:11. > :52:16.to say that it was a normal preparation for the match. It was
:52:17. > :52:23.not the best game of my life, but I was fine. I was running. I was
:52:24. > :52:27.trying to do everything. France was playing very well. A very hard team.
:52:28. > :52:36.COMMENTATOR: Another one and it's there. Zidane again. Well, would you
:52:37. > :52:40.believe that? Is it like a disaster in Brazil when they go out of the
:52:41. > :52:51.World Cup or lose in final? Yeah. The same if you lose on the first
:52:52. > :52:58.round. It is the same as in the final. If we got to a final, we
:52:59. > :53:01.would be really happy. Yeah, for the rest of the world, but not for us.
:53:02. > :53:13.Not for Brazil. Even before France lifted the trophy
:53:14. > :53:19.in Paris that night, Brazilians began to ask questions about their
:53:20. > :53:24.team's capitulation. Should Ronaldo ever have played? Could sponsors
:53:25. > :53:31.really have had any say in team selection? Nike got involved with
:53:32. > :53:37.the Brazil team a couple of years before the World Cup. With the idea
:53:38. > :53:42.of selling shirts all over the world and Brazil had no qualifiers for
:53:43. > :53:50.that World Cup. But Nike did their homework and they saw that many
:53:51. > :53:55.times Brazil played friendlies with severely weakened teams. If they are
:53:56. > :53:59.apaying big bucks for Brazil, they want Brazil. It seems there were
:54:00. > :54:04.clauses in the contracts along the lines of in these friendlies a
:54:05. > :54:09.certain number of designated first choice players had to play. But
:54:10. > :54:13.obviously, that has no relevance to a World Cup because you're going to
:54:14. > :54:21.select your best side in a World Cup anyway, but the fact that these
:54:22. > :54:25.clauses were secret opened up space for speculation. Nike denied having
:54:26. > :54:33.any influence over team selection and two years after the final, a
:54:34. > :54:37.Congressman and Brazil's Sports Minister, instigated a political
:54:38. > :54:43.inquiry, was there any truth in the conspiracy theory?
:54:44. > :54:48.TRANSLATION: Market forces are a new presence. Football never used to
:54:49. > :54:51.have sponsors. This is only from the 80 on wards and it brought risks and
:54:52. > :54:58.this is what we're investigating at the committee. The inquiry found no
:54:59. > :55:08.evidence of wrongdoing, however the fact that losening a football match
:55:09. > :55:10.led a political inquiry shows how seriously Brazil take the serious
:55:11. > :55:16.game. TRANSLATION: The fans really don't
:55:17. > :55:19.know what the real situation, what actually happened? I wasn't
:55:20. > :55:23.surprised because Brazilians love football. They are very passionate
:55:24. > :55:29.about it and when it doesn't work out, pressure is only natural and
:55:30. > :55:34.that's just an element of Brazilian culture and Brazilian people. Stress
:55:35. > :55:38.lines in the face of the beautiful game. Handling pressure is part of
:55:39. > :55:43.every professional footballer's life, but in Brazil, the current
:55:44. > :55:47.World Cup squad are well aware of what is at stake. There is not much
:55:48. > :55:52.pressure if you win the World Cup, you can stay there. If not, you need
:55:53. > :56:00.to live in Europe or another country! Yeah, I think so! Italy
:56:01. > :56:12.played two times at home, won one and lost one. Germany, lost one.
:56:13. > :56:18.Winning the World Cup in 2002 offered Ronaldo redemption. Out of
:56:19. > :56:34.favouring club football, Ronaldo scored six goals on the way to the
:56:35. > :56:39.final. Before the final, after lunch time, did it go through your mind
:56:40. > :56:45.what happened four years previously? Yeah, of course. It did. We had the
:56:46. > :56:53.lunch and after the lunch everybody goes to sleep and to get your stuff
:56:54. > :56:58.and I was looking for people there to talk to... You didn't want to
:56:59. > :57:05.sleep in case it happened again? No, I didn't want to go to sleep and I
:57:06. > :57:12.found my team-mate, the goalkeeper, he talked to me all the time until
:57:13. > :57:22.we left to go to the stadium. I was very scared. Lining up against
:57:23. > :57:31.Germany in Yokohama, would history repeat itself? It was fantastic, you
:57:32. > :57:37.know. After four years, come back to a World Cup final and then he scored
:57:38. > :57:40.two goals and became a World Cup champion again and the best player
:57:41. > :57:47.in the world. COMMENTATOR: Tonight, he makes
:57:48. > :57:55.headlines as a hero. After the final song, we celebrated for three days.
:57:56. > :58:01.Nobody was sleeping! The burden of history discarded in 2002, Ronaldo's
:58:02. > :58:04.reputation restored. Over 100 years earlier, Brazil took British
:58:05. > :58:09.association football and reshaped it. They fashioned it to reflect
:58:10. > :58:14.their physical power, their extravagance, their spirit of
:58:15. > :58:22.invention and their energy. It became the chosen game. The adored
:58:23. > :58:27.sport of a vast land of tropical vibrancy, Brazil five times World
:58:28. > :58:31.Cup champions, can the Brazil of 2014 build on the legacy or will
:58:32. > :58:37.they suffer under the strain, heat and pressure? Can the beautiful game
:58:38. > :59:10.still be played? We're about to find out!
:59:11. > :59:16.They've got footage of me in my underpants in the garden.
:59:17. > :59:18.Your favourite comedians... Do you think it's a catchy title?
:59:19. > :59:25.available exclusively on BBC iPlayer.
:59:26. > :59:29.What are you cooking for us today, Frankie?