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World Cup icons: Cruyff vs Beckenbauer – how great rivals became great friends (1974)
World Cup 1974 Rarely do the two best player's face each other in a World Cup final; they did in 1974, though...
World Cup icons: Fabio Cannavaro fights through the media storm – and goes down in history (2006)
World Cup 2006 Despite being engulfed by scandal, Italy emerged victorious in 2006 – and their captain went down in history
Gordon Banks: “I honestly thought Pele’s header had gone in… I said to myself: ‘Banksy, you lucky t***’”
Games That Changed My Life The former England, Leicester and Stoke legend has died at the age of 81. In September 2016, FFT quizzed the Three Lions hero on the games that changed his life
World Cup icons: Smoker, drinker, thinker Socrates gets himself in shape – but suffers in Spain (1982)
World Cup 1982 The great icon of Brazilian football never went beyond a World Cup quarter-final... but that was never his priority
Why Gheorghe Hagi is a footballing icon
Gheorghe Hagi Jonathan Wilson profiles the last of Europe’s great playmakers, a diminutive left-footed firebrand who lit up the World Cup
World Cup icons: Geoff Hurst takes the opportunity of a lifetime (1966)
World Cup 1966 England's enduring triumph might have been different had it not been for an untimely injury to Jimmy Greaves. Steve Morgan remembers Ramsey's immortals of '66
World Cup icons: Xavi and Iniesta prod and probe through the pain to win big (2010)
World Cup 2010 Vicente del Bosque's men were shaken up by their opening-game defeat to Switzerland – but clear minds and cool heads saw them through to a masterful triumph in South Africa
World Cup icons: 17-year-old Pele makes Brazil's own psychologist look silly (1958)
World Cup 1958 On the anniversary of his first World Cup goal, we look back at how the Seleção's boy king conquered the world in Sweden – but only after some pre-tournament guff from within his own country's ranks
