1972 Japan v Santos

Japan v Santos - 1972

In 1972 Santos of Brazil (including the great Pele in their team) travelled to Japan to play a match against the Japan National Team. Santos comfortably won the match 3-0 in the Tokyo National Stadium on 26 May.

The programme for the game has 34 x A4 pages (10 of which are adverts) and is all in Japanese. After the introductions, the programme has 4-pages devoted to Pele including full colour photos. The programme then has a full page colour Santos team photo before giving an article on Santos and full details of the Santos squad including small pen-picture photos of each of the players and officials. Details are then given of the Japan squad including small player photos. There is another page with colour photos of Pele in action before an article follows on football in Brazil. There is a large article on the country of Brazil before the programme ends with a page to enter scores/line-ups etc.

Programme

Ticket - 26 May