The first ten years of European Cup (1955-65)

 

1958 World Cup: combined goal & assist table

17: Just Fontaine (Fra) : 13 goals+4 assists

9: Raymond Kopa (Fra) : 3+6

7: Pelé (Bra) : 6+1 

7: Vavá (Bra) : 5+2

7: Kurt Hamrin (Swe) : 4+3

6: Helmut Rahn (BRD) : 6+0

6: Hans Schäfer (BRD) : 2+4

5: Peter McParland (Nir) : 5+0

5: Vaclav Hovorka (Cze) : 2+3

5: José Parodi (Par) : 2+3

4: Agne Simonsson (Swe) : 4+0

4: Zdeněk Zikán (Cze) : 4+0

4: Todor Veselinović (Yug) : 3+1

4: Oreste Corbatta (Arg) : 3+1

4: Lajos Tichy (Hun) : 3+1

4: Didi (Bra) : 1+3

4: Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund (Swe) : 1+3

4: Nils Liedholm (Swe) : 2+2

4: Roger Piantoni (Fra) : 2+2

3: Altafini ("Mazzola") : 2+1

3: Uwe Seeler (BRD) : 2+1

3: Jorge Romero (Par) : 2+1

3: Djalma Santos (Bra) : 1+2

3: Garrincha (Bra) : 0+3

European topscorers in the 1950 World Cup

 

Including Qualifiers.

7: Calle Palmér (Sweden, photo), Telmo Zarra (Spain)
6: Željko Čajkovski (Yugoslavia)
5: Jacques Fatton (Switzerland), Estanislao Basora (Spain)
4: Stan Mortensen & Jack Rowley (England), Stjepan Bobek (Yugoslavia)
3: Egon Jönsson, Sune Andersson, Hans Jeppson, Ingvar Rydell & Stig Sundqvist (Sweden), Silvestre Igoa (Spain), Milutin Pajević (Yugoslavia), Jackie Milburn (England), Con Martin & Samuel Smyth (Ireland), Henry Morris (Scotland), Fahreddin Cansever (Turkey)
2: René Maillard & Charles Antenen (Switzerland), Riccardo Carapellese (Italy), Stan Pearson (England), Kosta Tomašević (Yugoslavia), Henri Baillot (France), Jarmo Vaihela (Finland)

Average points in the first five World Cup editions (1930-1954)

 

84,6% Uruguay
70,8% (West) Germany
68,2% Hungary
67,9% Italy
66,7% Argentina
61,1% Yugoslavia, Austria
58,8% Brazil
55,6% Spain
50,0% Chile, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
45,0% Sweden
43,8% France
42,9% USA
41,7% England
30,0% Romania
8,3% Belgium
0,0% Mexico

Inter ratings 1955/56

League matches only. Minimum 9 appearances. Ratings: Corriere dello Sport.

6,61 Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund

6,54 Oscar Massei

6,38 Rino Ferrario

6,36 Giorgio Ghezzi

6,28 Giovanni Invernizzi

6,24 Guido Vincenzi

6,23 Enea Masiero

6,17 Fulvio Nesti, Achille Fraschini

6,12 Giovanni Giacomazzi

6,08 Benito "Veleno" Lorenzi

6,07 Livio Fongaro

6,00 Gino Armano

5,82 Cesare Campagnoli

5,74 Roger Vonlanthen

5,72 Celestino Celio

Brazil ratings in the 1958 World Cup

Ratings: Manchete Esportiva (São Paulo).

9,50 Didi

9,00 Gilmar, Nílton Santos, Zito

8,75 Vavá, Garrincha

8,50 Hilderaldo Bellini, Pelé

8,33 Mário Zagallo

8,17 Orlando, De Sordi

7,67 José Altafini ("Mazzola")

7,50 Joel Antônio Martins

Le pagelle della Fiorentina 1959/60

7,03 Kurt Hamrin

6,64 Sergio Castelletti

6,62 Alberto Orzan

6,60 Giuliano Sarti

6,48 Armando Segato

6,47 Giuseppe Chiappella

6,44 Francisco Lojacono

6,28 Saul Malatrasi

6,25 Guido Gratton

6,20 Miguel Montuori

5,97 Claudio Rimbaldo

5,91 Enzo Robotti

5,76 Gianfranco Petris

5,67 Claudio Azzali

Top rated Serie A players 1959/60

7,07 John Charles (Juventus)

7,05 Nils Liedholm (Milan)

7,03 Kurt Hamrin (Fiorentina), Omar Enrique Sívori (Juventus)

6,78 Giacomo Losi (Roma)

6,76 Ottavio Bugatti (Napoli)

6,74 Roberto Anzolin (Palermo)

6,71 Gianni Seghedoni (Bari)

6,66 Umberto Colombo (Juventus), Bengt Lindskog (Inter)

6,63 Mirko Pavinato (Bologna), Egidio Guarnacci (Roma)

Le pagelle del Milan 1954/55

Gare di Serie A. Voti: Corriere dello Sport.

6,80 Nils Liedholm

6,50 Juan Schiaffino

6,44 Gunnar Nordahl

6,40 Jørgen Leschly Sørensen

6,39 Lorenzo Buffon

6,38 Arturo Silvestri

6,37 Cesare Maldini

6,36 Mario Bergamaschi

6,33 Eros Beraldo

6,29 Eduardo Ricagni

6,15 Franco Pedroni

6,02 Amleto Frignani

6,00 Francesco Zagatti, Alfio Fontana

5,67 Albano Vicariotto

Matches between the South American giants, 1950-59

 

Argentina : 10 6 5 37-23 = 61,90%
Brazil : 8 4 8 29-31 = 50,00%
Uruguay : 7 4 12 31-43 = 39,13%

Scored goals:
1,76 Argentina
1,45 Brazil
1,35 Uruguay

Conceded goals:
1,10 Argentina
1,55 Brazil
1,87 Uruguay

Altogether 28 matches with 96 goals (3,43 per match).

Yugoslavia ratings in the 1958 World Cup

 

Ratings: France Football.

4,50 Vujadin Boškov
4,25 Branko Zebec
4,00 Vasilije Šijaković
3,75 Aleksandar Petaković
3,67 Miloš Milutinović, Dragoslav Šekularac, Dobrosav Krstić
3,50 Tomislav Crnković, Zdravko Rajkov, Todor Veselinović
2,33 Vladimir Beara

Argentina ratings in the 1958 World Cup

 

Ratings: France Football.

4,33 José Varacka, Oreste Corbatta
3,67 Norberto Menéndez, Néstor Rossi
3,50 Ángel Labruna
3,00 Juan Francisco Lombardo, Pedro Dellacha, Federico Vairo
2,50 Osvaldo Cruz
2,33 Amadeo Carrizo, Ludovico Avio

Players' market value, August 1958

According to El Gráfico.

$200.000* : Pelé (Brazil)
$180.000 : Garrincha (Brazil)
$160.000 : Vavá (Brazil), Raymond Kopa, Just Fontaine (France)
$150.000 : Didi (Brazil)
$120.000 : Nílton Santos, Bellini, Gilmar (Brazil), Kurt Hamrin (Sweden), Omar Sívori (Argentina/Italy), Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina/Spain)
$100.000 : Roger Piantoni (France), Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia), Břetislav Dolejší, Gustav Mráz (Czechoslovakia), Helmut Rahn (West Germany), Harry Gregg (N. Ireland)
$80.000 : Yuri Voinov (USSR), Danny Blanchflower (N. Ireland), Erich Juskowiak (West Germany), Orvar Bergmark (Sweden), Dragoslav Šekularac (Yugoslavia), Pavol Molnár (Czechoslovakia)
$70.000 : Hans Buzek (Austria), Ivor Allchurch (Wales), Jean Vincent (France)
$60.000 : Nils Liedholm (Sweden), Oreste Corbatta (Argentina), Herbert Erhardt (West Germany), Valentin Ivanov (USSR)

*) $200.000 in 1958 is worth $2.082.000 today.

Average ratings 1956/57 Serie A

8,17 Nils Liedholm (Milan)
7,80 Julinho (Fiorentina)
7,72 Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Milan)
7,70 Bengt Lindskog (Udinese)
7,41 Giuseppe Secchi (Udinese)
7,31 Celso Posio (Napoli)
7,30 Axel Pilmark (Bologna)
7,25 Armando Segato (Fiorentina)
7,23 Bengt "Julle" Gustavsson (Atalanta)
6,19 Eduardo Ricagni (Inter)
7,18 Giacomo Losi (Roma)
7,17 Ermes Muccinelli (Lazio)
7,16 Antoine Bonifaci (Bologna)
7,13 Cesarino Cervellati (Bologna)
7,11 Ottavio Bugatti (Napoli)
7,06 Dino Da Costa (Roma)
6,98 Alberto Orzan (Fiorentina)
6,97 Rino Ferrario (Triestina)
6,91 Alfio Fontana (Milan), Luciano Comaschi (Napoli)
6,88 Roberto "Bob" Lovati (Lazio), Luís Vinício (Napoli)
6,86 Pasquale Vivolo (Lazio)
6,82 Antonio Pin (Padova)
6,80 Angelo Longoni (Atalanta)
6,79 Bruno "Petisso" Pesaola (Napoli)
6,74 Arne Selmosson (Lazio), Gaudenzio Bernasconi (Sampdoria)
6,73 Fosco Becattini (Genoa), Sergio Morin (Napoli)
6,71 Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund (Inter)
6,66 Piero Bandini (Triestina), Benjamino Di Giacomo (SPAL)
6,65 Gunnar Nordahl (Roma), Giuseppe Farina (Sampdoria)
6,58 Giulio Corsini (Atalanta), Amleto Frignani (Udinese)

Ratings: Corriere dello Sport.

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1954 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

   12: Maxl Morlock (BRD)
   11: Sándor Kocsis (Hungary), Erich Probst (Austria)
   6: Nat Lofthouse (England), Josef Hügi (Switzerland)
   5: Hans Schäfer, Ottmar Walter & Helmut Rahn (BRD), Henri Coppens & Léopold Anoul (Belgium), Burhan Sargun (Turkey)
   4: Ferenc Puskás & Nándor Hidegkuti (Hungary), ­Theodor Wagner & Ernst Stojaspal (Austria), Robert Ballaman (Switzerland), Nils-Åke "Kajan" Sandell (Sweden), Suat Mamat (Turkey)
   3: Fritz Walter (BRD), Zoltán Czibor (Hungary), Amleto Frignani & Giampiero Boniperti (Italy), Ivor Broadis & Dennis Wilshaw (England), Jean Vincent & Just Fontaine (France), Ernst Ocwirk (Austria), Kalevi Lehtovirta (Finland), John Charles (Wales)
   2: Roger Piantoni, Raymond Kopa, Léon Glovacki, Pierre Flamion, Joseph Ujlaki & Jean Desgranges (France), Mihály Lantos & Péter Palotás (Hungary), Miloš Milutinović & Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia), Harald Hassall & Jimmy Mullen (England), Robert Körner (Austria), Mathieu Bollen (Belgium), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Turkey), Egisto Pandolfini (Italy), Charlie Fleming & Allan Brown (Scotland), Reg Ryan & Arthur Fitzsimmons (Ireland), František Vlk (Czechoslovakia), Olavi Lahtinen (Finland), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland), Ivor Allchurch (Wales), József Pecsovszky/Iosif Petschovschi (Romania), Ivan Kolev (Bulgaria)

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1958 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

   12: Just Fontaine (France)
   8: Tommy Taylor (England)
   7: Thadée Cisowski (France)
   6: Helmut Rahn (West Germany), Jackie Mudie (Scotland)
   5: Roger Piantoni (France), Nikita Simonyan (USSR), Lajos Tichy (Hungary), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland)
   4: Kurt Hamrin & Agne Simonsson (Sweden), Jean Vincent (France), Anatoli Ilyin (USSR), Zdeněk Zikán (Czechoslovakia), Ferenc Machos (Hungary), Ladislao Kubala (Spain), Paul Vandenbergh (Belgium)
   3: Raymond Kopa & Maryan Wisnieski (France), Hans Schäfer (West Germany), John Atyeo (England), Muhamed Mujić, Aleksandar Petaković & Todor Veselinović (Yugoslavia), Eduard Streltsov (USSR), Tadeusz Kraus (Czechoslovakia), Gerhard Hanappi (Austria), Noud van Melis & Abe Lenstra (Holland), Dermot Curtis (Ireland), Hristo Iliev (Bulgaria), Edward Jankowski (Poland)
   2: Nils Liedholm (Sweden), Joseph Ujlaki (France), Igor Netto, Anatoli Isaiev, Valentin Ivanov & Alexandr Ivanov (USSR), József Bozsik, Nándor Hidegkuti, Károly Sándor & Lajos Csordás (Hungary), Milan Dvořák & Václav Hovorka (Czechoslovakia), Des Palmer & Ivor Allchurch (Wales), Jimmy McIlroy & Derek Kevan (Northern Ireland), Uwe Seeler (West Germany), Duncan Edwards (England), Theodor Wagner, Karl Koller & Hans Busek (Austria), Miloš Milutinović (Yugoslavia), Maurice Willems, Ricard Orlans, Victor Mees & Henri Coppens (Belgium), Cor van der Gijp (Holland), Guido Gratton (Italy), Manuel Vasques (Portugal), Luis Suárez & Estanislao Basora (Spain), Ove Bech Nielsen (Denmark), Gerhard Cieślik (Poland), Thordar Thordarsson (Iceland), Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria), Harald Hennum (Norway), Günther Wirth (East Germany), Josef Hügi & Roger Vonlanthen (Switzerland), Alexandru Ere (Romania).

Average points in the first five World Cup editions (1930-1954)

84,6% Uruguay
70,8% (West) Germany
68,2% Hungary
67,9% Italy
66,7% Argentina
61,1% Yugoslavia, Austria
58,8% Brazil
55,6% Spain
50,0% Chile, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia
45,0% Sweden
43,8% France
42,9% USA
41,7% England
30,0% Romania
8,3% Belgium
0,0% Mexico

1958 World Cup: Combined goal & assist table.

17: Fontaine (Fra) : 13 goals+4 assists
9: Kopa (Fra) : 3+6
7: Pelé (Bra) : 6+1 
7: Vavá (Bra) : 5+2
7: Hamrin (Swe) : 4+3
6: Rahn (BRD) : 6+0
6: Schäfer (BRD) : 2+4
5: McParland (Nir) : 5+0
5: Hovorka (Cze) : 2+3
5: Parodi (Par) : 2+3
4: Simonsson (Swe) : 4+0
4: Zikán (Cze) : 4+0
4: Veselinović (Yug) : 3+1
4: Corbatta (Arg) : 3+1
4: Tichy (Hun) : 3+1
4: Didi (Bra) : 1+3
4: Skoglund (Swe) : 1+3
4: Liedholm (Swe) : 2+2
4: Piantoni (Fra) : 2+2
3: Altafini ("Mazzola") : 2+1
3: Seeler (BRD) : 2+1
3: Romero (Par) : 2+1
3: Djalma Santos (Bra) : 1+2
3: Garrincha (Bra) : 0+3

Matches between the South American giants, 1950-59.

Argentina : 10 6 5 37-23 = 61,90%
Brazil : 8 4 8 29-31 = 50,00%
Uruguay : 7 4 12 31-43 = 39,13%

Scored goals:
1,76 Argentina
1,45 Brazil
1,35 Uruguay

Conceded goals:
1,10 Argentina
1,55 Brazil
1,87 Uruguay

Altogether 28 matches with 96 goals (3,43 per match).

Memory Lane: Clásico goalscorers 1950s & 1960s.

Real Madrid players in bold text.


1950-59
6: César, Di Stéfano
4: Basora, Pahiño, Roque Olsen, Rial
3: Tejada, Evaristo, Molowny, Narro, Arsuaga.

1960-69
9: Di Stéfano, Gento, Puskás
6: Zaldúa
4: Fusté, Amancio
3: Del Sol, Pirri.