Mario Zagallo, a Brazilian football legend who achieved four World Cup victories as both a player and a coach, has passed away at the age of 92. He played as a winger for the Brazil team that won consecutive World Cups in 1958 and 1962, participating in both final games. Zagallo later coached the team that many consider the greatest international team of all time, composed of players such as Pele, Jairzinho, and Carlos Alberto, leading them to victory in 1970. He claimed his fourth World Cup triumph in 1994 as assistant coach to Carlos Alberto Parreira. After this tournament, he returned as the manager of the Brazilian team and guided them to the final in 1998, where they lost to the hosts France. Along with Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer and France’s Didier Deschamps, Zagallo was the first person to win the World Cup both as a player and a coach. His passing means that there are no surviving members of the Brazil team that played in the 1958 final.
