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“Zico The Destroyer!”

This particular edition in our retrospective time machine of Liverpool Football Club matches takes us to Sunday 13th December 1981 and amid the din of air horns and Brazilian drummers, we join 62,000 others inside the vast open air bowl of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium for the Toyota sponsored World Club Championship, and yearly event contested between the European and South American Champions. Both the English and Brazilian Champions were hall of fame “Teams for the Ages”. The European Cup winning Liverpool team had changed a little with the addition of Bruce Grobbelaar in goal, Mark Lawrenson at left back and Australian International Craig “Skippy” Johnston making his competitive Reds debut here in Japan. But the legendary team around the new additions rolled off a fan’s tongue with ease: Phil Neal, Phil Thompson, Ray Kennedy and Terry McDermott (England internationals all) and the Scottish backbone of so many gloriously trophy laden years, Alan Hansen, Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish. On the other side of the ball was a South American Champion team from Brazil that oozed past, present and future footballing talent for both club and country: the majestic Junior and masterful ball playing adventurous central defender through a beautiful midfield of Tita, Adilio and Lico supplying the burly central striker Nunes and all orchestrated by the magician, future scorer of iconic goals in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups and the very epitome of the cliché laden “Number 10 player” or creative playmaker, Zico.

The above opening paragraph is taken from my original article penned and published to my Medium blog site on 15th July 2022 and which can be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack site and original article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/liverpool-0-flamengo-3-db1986bc3c87

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