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Carlos Alberto: Remembering Brazil's football captain

Brazilian football legend, Carlos Alberto Torres, who was the captain of Brazil's 1970 World Cup-winning side, has died in Rio de Janeiro aged seventy-two. He scored one of the greatest goals in World Cup history in the 1970 final against Italy. Ricardo Setyon, a Brazilian journalist and also a friend of Carlos Alberto remembers that powerful moment.

(Picture: Brazil's team captain Carlos Alberto, centre, holds up the golden Jules Rimet Trophy; Credit: AP)

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