Tele Santana

April 22nd, 2006 | By: John | 5 Comments »

Tele Santana passed away yesterday. You can read Euler’s obit. I mention him here because he coached the best team I have ever seen: Brazil’s team that played the 1982 world cup in Spain. They played the beautiful game at its most beautiful level. Santana let his players play, feel, create. Every goal they scored (and they scored a bunch) was a masterpiece. The game has lost one of its greats, and I offer his family, his teams, and his country my sympathy.

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By Tele Santana 1931-2006 - FIFA World Cup 2006 - World Cup 2006 Blog | April 22nd, 2006 at 11:15 am

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By Euler | April 22nd, 2006 at 12:15 pm

He really was a enforcer of the attacking style. I hope more coaches use him as inspiration. Nice words, man.

By Rene | April 22nd, 2006 at 12:47 pm

The ‘82 version of Brazil was probably the second best team in history in terms of aesthetics (just behind Brazil of 1970), and slightly ahead of the Netherlands in 1974.

It had probably the best midfield I had the chance to witness. It was unfortunate that the strikers (surprisngly for a country like Brazil) sucked big time. They would have probably won against Italy if it wasn’t for Serginho. As in most world cups, their Goalkeeper and Defense were not that good.

Still, that midfield would capture everyone’s imagination. Falcao, Socrates, Toninho Cerezo, Zico and Eder were just too good.

The world needs more coaches like Tele Santana, who put the show above everything else. He will be missed.

By Luis Carlos | April 23rd, 2006 at 8:01 pm

Too bad I don’t remember him.

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By DINO | July 13th, 2006 at 8:39 pm

I havent pleasure to see Brasilian football team from 1982 but from stories it seems that they were the best team on world cup which havent won the cup. Tele Santana was great coach because he gave to his players freedom of imagination

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By Juan M Ochoa | August 6th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

Tele was just great. Shame they lost to Italy in Spain ‘82 mainly because of Rossi’s inspired day and a horrible defensive mistake (none of such factors were Tele’s fault though!!) In my opinion those were the best two teams in the cup and that should’ve been the final in my own personal opinion (and if that would’ve been the case the history of the world cup would be slightly different!) I’m sure Brazil would’ve beaten Italy in the final at Santiago Bernabeu’s stadium in Madrid if they were the finalists (call it speculation or fantasy but that’s my opinion…
I feel the brazilian team from Spain ‘82 to be one of the greatest teams in history even far better than the Brazil of Germany 2006 and Korea/Japan 2002, they had the “magic touch” and were exponents of the beautiful game like no other team in football history with only the exception of that legendary brazilian team from Mexico ‘70.
Thanks Tele for those moments you gave us and God bless you wherever he’s got you…

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