A decade of retro club and seleção images featuring some of the greatest players the world has ever seen. This is the first post in our Brazil Vintage series and it spans the decade in which Brazil enjoyed their first two World Cup successes and became a global byword for football played with a certain type of verve and panache.

Brazil 1958 World Cup squad cartoons-2

Brazil 1958 World Cup squad cartoons

Bahia 1960

Fluminense 1960

Fluminense 1960-2

Brazil at Wembley, 1963

England v Brazil, 1963

Pele v Internazionale, Santos 1963

Djalma Santos, 1964 World Soccer cover

Alcindo, Brazil 1966

Edu and Orlando sign autographs in Sweden, 1966

Garrincha, 1966