Any football match is an intrigue with an unexpected ending, great goals and fatal mistakes. But there are matches that, by their nature, without exaggeration, can be classified as great. Among them is the first international friendly match between Scotland and England in 1872 (0:0). And the drama at the two hundred thousand Maracana stadium in the final match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup between the national teams of Uruguay and Brazil (2:1). And the first major success of Soviet football in Melbourne in 1956 in the final of the XVI Olympic Games in the match between the USSR and Yugoslavia (1:0). And how can one not note the two goals in the 1958 World Cup final by an unknown debutant, 17-year-old Pele, during the match Brazil - Sweden (5:2), or the “hand of God” of Maradona, when in the second half of the match Argentina - England (2 :1) in 1986 he pushed the ball into the goal with his hand. And, of course, the unforgettable lesson of “total” football, which the Russian team taught in the quarterfinals of the 2008 European Championship in the match Russia - Holland (3:1) to the Dutch, the authors of this style of play.