In the space of two days in January, football lost Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer, two of the three men to have won the World Cup as both a player and a manager. But there is something else that links them: they both changed the tactical evolution of the game as players. Tactical revolutions these days tend to be regarded as the preserve of managers, who change the game with their philosophies. Six decades ago, the process was often more organic.
Brazil had won the1958
