the 1982 brazil team scored 15 goals in 5 matches at the world cup. then paolo rossi happened. losing 3-2 to italy at sarrià didn't just end a tournament. it broke a generation of legends in ways the country has never fully reconciled with: rossi scored a hat-trick in exactly 77 minutes. goals at the 5th, 74th, and 82nd. he had just come off a 3-year ban for the totonero match-fixing scandal and hadn't scored a competitive goal since june 1979… brazil only needed a draw to advance. italy needed the win. tele santana was ahead twice and refused to sit on either lead sócrates was a qualified medical doctor. graduated from the faculdade de medicina de ribeirão preto in 1977. he drank harder than anyone on the roster and lived another 29 years knowing exactly what cirrhosis does to the human liver. died december 4 2011 at 57 of septic shock zico has called july 5 1982 the worst day of his professional career in every major interview he has given since. every one falcão went back to roma and won the guerin d'oro as italian serie A's best player in 1982-83. brazilian press never let him celebrate it. the question was always why didn't you save us at sarrià éder hit the crossbar in the 75th minute on a free-kick that would have made it 3-2 brazil. he has refused to discuss the kick in interviews for 40 years serginho missed 3 clean chances in 90 minutes. reinaldo was left home with a knee injury. brazil has not trusted a number 9 with the same weight since telê santana coached mexico 86. lost to france on penalties 4-3 in the quarter-final. never returned to international football zico, sócrates, falcão. zero world cup titles across three careers with 47 major trophies between them. rossi took the golden ball, the cup, and the ballon d'or home to vicenza the team that beat nobody on the field is the reason an entire generation of brazilian kids were named sócrates and zico. it's also the reason their fathers don't talk about july 5 1982. your country's 1982 brazil is which team.