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Brazil bids adieu to football legend Zagallo

Updated on: 08 January,2024 07:55 AM IST  |  Rio de Janeiro
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Dressed in black, the yellow of the Brazilian national team or the colours of the clubs where Zagallo played and coached, scores of mourners filed past his coffin at the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil bids adieu to football legend Zagallo

Mario Zagallo

Brazilians paid their last respects on Sunday to football legend Mario Zagallo, after the four-time World Cup-winning player and coach died at age 92, the final member of one of the country’s greatest footballing generations. 


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Dressed in black, the yellow of the Brazilian national team or the colours of the clubs where Zagallo played and coached, scores of mourners filed past his coffin at the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in Rio de Janeiro. 


Also on display near the lace-draped coffin were football-mad Brazil’s record five World Cup trophies. Zagallo, a diminutive left-wing known for his tactical brilliance, had a hand in winning four of them, more than anyone in football history.

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