Argentina appeared favourites to host however Chile lobbied FIFA’s member nations and finally landed rights to host it.
Host: Chile
Groups: 16
Format: Group stage, knockouts
Matches: 32
Objectives: 89
Winners: Brazil
Runners–up: Czechoslovakia
Golden boot: Garrincha, Vava, Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Florian Albert (Yugoslavia), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Drazen Jerkovic (Yugoslavia)
Background
Following FIFA’s determination to vary the host continent each 4 years, and South America’s menace to boycott the match if it was hosted in Europe once more, the World Cup returned to the southern hemisphere after 12 years.
Argentina appeared favourites to be picked however Chile lobbied FIFA’s member nations throughout numerous tournaments and congresses and managed to realize help and finally landed rights to host it.
Chilean Soccer Federation’s President Carlos Dittborn mentioned “Porque nada tenemos, lo haremos todo [Because we have nothing, we will do everything]”, and people phrases turned the unofficial slogan of the match. They rang more true when the nation was hit by probably the most highly effective earthquake ever recorded (9.5 magnitude) in 1960.
Preparations for the match had been severely affected and the variety of host cities was lower down from eight to a few.
When the match lastly started, all 4 South American giants began with a win. Europe’s massive names slowly registered their factors following low-scoring attracts and wins. Purpose distinction was launched because the deciding issue for qualification into the knockouts, disposing of replays in case of a draw.
On-field motion included clashes and never simply soccer. The worst present was throughout Chile’s group match towards Italy when each units of gamers exchanged kicks and punches.
The match was termed the Battle of Santiago, and the Italian staff was escorted out of the bottom by police.
The house facet exceeded expectations by profitable two of their three group matches and beating European champions USSR to make it to the semis the place they had been overwhelmed by defending champions and favourites Brazil.
Within the different semi-final, Czechoslovakia beat Yugoslavia in entrance of a small crowd.
Within the decider, Brazil trailed early on however as soon as once more discovered their method again to land a second consecutive World Cup title.
Garrincha took on the duty of main Brazil’s assault after Pele acquired injured within the group match towards Czechoslovakia.
Highs
After the devastating earthquake of 1960, the host nation had a lot to cheer about as they had been capable of put collectively the match and end third.
4 gamers shared the golden boot award.
Lows
After lighting up the 1958 World Cup, Pele was broadly considered the perfect participant on the earth and was underneath the highlight 4 years later. Nevertheless, his damage within the group levels stored him out of the remainder of the match.
The introduction of purpose distinction because the deciding consider qualification for the quarterfinal introduced out defensive techniques and low-scoring video games. The typical variety of objectives scored per match dropped to 2.78, the bottom it has ever been.
Fights marred the video games and using police to guard the gamers turned a necessity.