Carlos Alberto, captain of Brazil’s brilliant 1970 World Cup-winning team who also played for the New York Cosmos, died of a heart attack at age 72. The attack-minded defender scoredthe goal that defined the 1970 World Cup in the final against Italy — a flowing move that involved all but one of Brazil’s outfield players and was finished in style when Carlos Alberto chargedforward from right back and thrashed Pele’s pass into the net.
