has over the last couple of years.Time to face the facts:

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Carlos Alberto Torres, the captain of Brazils World Cup-winning team in 1970 and scorer of one of the sports most memorable goals, died on Tuesday.He was 72 and died of after a heart attack at his home in Rio de Janeiro.A statement on Carlos Albertos Facebook page confirmed the death.It is in deep sorrow that we inform that this Tuesday morning our eternal captain Carlos Alberto Torres passed away in Rio de Janeiro, the statement said.Brazils football confederation CBF said that his coffin will be placed at its headquarters in Rio on Tuesday evening, enabling the public to visit and pay their respects, and that a funeral service may be held there. He will be buried on Wednesday.In a statement, the CBF said Carlos Alberto Torres leaves an enormous legacy of achievements and lots of hard work to support our football.Last month, his twin brother Carlos Roberto died.One of the best defenders of his generation, Carlos Alberto was innovative in playing box-to-box soccer. That style of play allowed him to score his famous goal at the 1970 World Cup, blasting in a pass from Pele in the 4-1 win against Italy in the final.That goal, scored after a touch by almost every Brazilian on the pitch , is seen as the pinnacle of a team that was so dominant that it made their yellow shirts into a global brand.Pele, one of Carlos Albertos closest friends, said they had a winning partnership as teammates and remained close even after they retired. I am deeply saddened by the death of my friend and brother, the three-time World Cup winner said in a statement.At the end of that 1970 final, the 25-year-old Carlos Alberto became the last captain to lift the Jules Rimet trophy -- the first three-time World Cup winners earned the right to keep it. The trophy that he famously kissed before lifting as a champion was later destroyed by thieves.After those glorious days in Mexico, Brazil won two more World Cups in much less impressive fashion. This made Carlos Alberto one of the biggest advocates among his countrymen of a return to an attacking style of football.For many Brazilians, he was just The Captain -- even to his friends and family. He made 53 appearances for Brazil.He was more than a leader, he was an innovative player. That is why he is our eternal captain, said Carlos Alberto Parreira, a physical therapist on that 1970 team and later the coach when Brazil won the 1994 World Cup.Former Germany captain Franz Beckenbauer, writing on social media, said Carlos Alberto was like a brother to him. Beckenbauer played alongside the Brazilian in the United States at the New York Cosmos.Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona, among many others, also expressed his condolences.Carlos Albertos club career in Brazil was primarily with Santos, but he later played for the Cosmos and briefly for the California Surf.His friendship with Pele was built around their years at Santos. He also played for Rio de Janeiro clubs Fluminense, Botafogo and Flamengo. He retired in 1982. All of those clubs expressed condolences to his family and fans.His coaching career was not as impressive, but Carlos Alberto still won a Brazilian championship with Flamengo in 1983. The former footballer also had a brief appearance as a city councilor in Rio from 1989 to 1993.Carlos Alberto was working as a soccer commentator for sports channel SporTV and was on the air on Sunday covering a match.----Stephen Wade in Rio de Janeiro also contributed to this report. Layvin Kurzawa Paris Saint-Germain Jersey . Now that hes hitting streaking teammates with pin-point passes for easy layups, Love is asserting himself as one of the true superstars in the league. Adrien Rabiot Jersey . 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The ever-changing nature of wrestling has led to a litany of loose ends and questions that will never be answered and conclusions that will never happen. Who was behind GTV? Was Hornswaggle really the Anonymous Raw General Manager all along?Other stories arent forgotten entirely, destined instead to be put on the back burner for an extended and indeterminate stretch. This was the case when it came to John Cenas?pursuit of Ric Flairs record of 16 world championship reigns, with barely a mention made on TV over the last year until Cena made his dramatic return to SmackDown Live Tuesday night.A.J. Styles opened the show, as youd expect from the new WWE world champion, and he executed all of the things that make those who love him, love him -- and those who hate him, hate him -- to near-perfection. The smug grin on Styles face and almost everything he did on his walk to the ring was exactly what one would expect, and from the moment he got on the microphone, he made salient points. He listed off a number of occurrences he had correctly predicted en route to becoming champion, culminating in an increasingly ridiculous If I told you scenarios that peaked with Styles claiming that if he said the sky was green, it wasnt even worth looking because he was truly infallible.As with some of his other extended solo segments on the microphone, the tail end of his statements started to lose some steam. It actually got a bit ugly toward the very end for Styles as he turned his (and Cenas) catchphrase from the Face who runs the place to the Champ that runs the camp -- a rather cringe-worthy turn, in fact. Styles then repeated it several times, and whether it was his given mission to make the new phrase stick in the minds of fans or a merely as a tool to get the crowd to turn against him, it fell incredibly flat.Thankfully for Styles, Cena made his entrance at that moment and hit his stride in record time. He wasted no time and pulled no punches in stating his intentions for the WWE world championship, despite Styles efforts to deflect by returning Cenas headband when faced with Cenas demand that, You have something that belongs to me.It might be hard to believe, especially considering several particularly dominant stretches during his decade in the WWE, but Cena hasnt held a WWE world title in more than two years. His last reign with the WWE world championship came to an end in August 2014 in a match where he was utterly destroyed by Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam. Cena has only sniffed the championship a few times since that point. There was a big push at the 2015 SummerSlam, as Cena embraced his proximity to Flairs record with a wave of 15x shirts and gear. But with Jon Stewarts interference, Cena lost, and he hasnt received a televised world championship match since.It would be unfair to dismiss that time frame completely, though. In that stretch, Cena made the United States championship and himself more relevant by challenging nearly every promising young guy and stepping up his in-ring game immensely. There was also a six-month stretch where Cena was out with an injury, but upon his return, he immediately got involved with Styles in a rivalry thats produced several career-defining matches for each of them.The fire on display from Cena as he went after Styles clearly showed just how important a milestone that Flairs record is for Cena, no matter how long its been since hes held the title. I have one goal left -- one goal in the WWE -- and its to proudly announce that the 16-time champ ... is ... here.On cue, Dean Ambrose came storming out to claim what was rightfully his, immediately blowing by Cena and getting in Styles face too. Ambrose has subtly grown out his beard over the last few weeks, and it served as a nice touch in portraying just how unhinged hes become after losing his championship like he did. Both the announcers and Ambrose put over how good the match was before Styles took the easy way out, and its a strong-running storyline that could continue to build for a time to come. Styles has the ability to win a straight up fight, like he did against Cena at SummerSlam, but when he sees an opening to take a shortcut, he wont hesitate to do so.You made the biggest mistake of your life on Sunday, boy... Im not just going to take my title back -- Im going to take it back with interest, Ambrose said.Cena brought things back into focus and, because its 2016, warranted a reaction from the crowd for calling out Ambrose, agreeing with slights from Stone Cold Steve Austin that he dished out on Austins podcast. Cena even pointed out that Styles merely returned the favor for an injury Ambrose himself inflicted on Styles, and then turned up the heat with some seemingly childish humor that got him one of the loudest, most unilaterally positive reactions hes received in years as he laid into the Lunatic fringe.Im actually surprised that low blow even hurt you... all youve been showing the WWE Universe is that youve got no b----, said Cena as he got just a few inches out from Ambroses face, with the crowd breaking out into uproarious Cena chants.Ambrose returned fire as he called Cena a lazy part-timer that cant get it done in the ring anymore and is better-suited to being on morning talk shows. Enter?Shane McMahon, who with a snap of the fingers, set up a triple-threat match for the WWE world championship at Octobers PPV, No Mercy. Ambrose, Cena and Styles each felt like a big deal with a bone to pick with the other two, and the main event did a whole lot of good for each of them -- and a fourth person, as Styles was ultimately tasked with finding a tag team partner for Tuesdays main event.A two-hour show with only four actual matches might have typically infuriated some wrestling fans, but most of what happened on SmackDown Live really worked despite the lack of in-ring competition. The Miz predictably strolled out to the ring with Maryse, gloating about his victory via nefarious means of his own. He celebrated Day 162 of his Never-ending intercontinental championship world tour by pointing out hed already surpassed the reigns of 132 former Intercontinental champions, including Triple H and his Backlash opponent, Dolph Ziggler.He boiled it down to one big point -- one hed harp on, and prove later in the evening. I am a main eventer. Its the truth.Maryse proved how valuable she is on her own, garnering genuine anger from the crowd just long enough for Daniel Bryan. Its been impressive to watch the subtlety with which theyve handled The Miz and Bryan working together since taking a full week off post-Talking Smack showdown. Everything theyre doing plays well thanks to their natural ability to play off of one another.When Bryan demanded that Miz face Ziggler in a rematch, The Miz correctly pointed out that Ziggler hadnt really earned his No.dddddddddddd 1 contender status to begin with and reintroduced the possibility of a contract renegotiation. Rather than just dealing with the edicts of authority figures, this move from The Miz tends to lend itself to some interesting directions for the future as he wields his leverage.Im calling my own shots, Daniel, and theres nothing you can do about it, Miz said. You dont get what you want, until I get what I want. With a drop of the microphone, The Miz made good on his threats as he exited through the crowd with Maryse.The Mizs switcheroo as Styles last-minute tag team partner further accentuated three things: How much value hes built with the crowd in the last few weeks, how hes clearly the No. 2 heel on the SmackDown Live roster and just how willing his character is to disrupt everything Bryan wants to do. With Styles previously failing to find a partner, and Bryan saddling him with James Ellsworth, one of the independent wrestlers that was used as cannon fodder for Braun Strowman on Raw a few weeks back, The Miz had the perfect opportunity to interject.Im the main event, repeated The Miz, and he certainly felt like he belonged in this match as the bell rang. The tag team chemistry between him and Styles was strong throughout, and until the end of the match, none of the four competitors felt particularly stronger than the other three.Strangely enough, it somehow felt wrong that it was the Intercontinental champion, and not the vulnerable WWE champion, to ultimately take the fall. Having Cena make The Miz seem like a chump with a quick-hit Attitude Adjustment and no real prior offense felt like a silly thing to do, and ultimately a blow to the work that hes been doing. There were a dozen other ways this could have ended, most of which could have involved an anything you can do, I can do better sequence between Cena and Ambrose that could have led into a Dirty Deeds straight into an Attitude Adjustment (or vice versa) and made to feel like either Styles or Miz required a lot to be taken down. It also would have made Ambroses strike on Cena to close the show feel like more of a culmination than a random happenstance.The Miz deserved better.Hits and missesIt would have been hard for the five-way match on SmackDown Live to live up to the Six-Pack Elimination Challenge at Backlash, but the No. 1 contender status battle for the SmackDown womens championship was still a very fun match, giving each woman a chance to look like she could be the winner. They even had the kind of near-falls stemming from moves that would normally end matches -- and if youre one who looks for symbols of the women reaching an even playing field with the men, this was a big milestone.Naomi is very much a feast-or-famine entity, but shes doing a lot of exciting and experimental things in the ring that few others are willing to risk. Nikki Bella is moving as well as she has at any point in her career, and shes seemingly been reinvigorated with all of the fresh opponents ahead of her -- and it speaks well for the future of this division.There was a certain lingering feeling that the winner here would be a wild card, with Bella and Carmella already embroiled in a rivalry outside of the scope of the SmackDown womens championship. There were certain arguments to be made for Naomi and Natalya, the other veterans in the ring, but Alexa Bliss was something of an inspired choice -- someone who could greatly benefit from a high-profile feud at the top of the womens division, and someone with previous history against Becky Lynch.Theres nothing quite as fun as Heath Slater putting his foot in his mouth, and it seems like one of these days Rhyno will either going to get fed up with the One Man Band talking for him or hes not going to be able to cover Slaters rear end when hes needed most. For now, everythings clicking. Im far from the biggest Ascension supporter, as its seemingly been a competition between them and fellow former NXT tag team champions The Vaudevillains in a contest to see whos least relevant in the division, but this was the right kind of opening challenge for a team like Slater & Rhyno to build up a victory while still giving Konnor and Viktor a chance to prove themselves.I like the thought of there being at least an occasional title match on SmackDown Live and Raw, and the SmackDown tag team championships certainly fit the bill in terms of where they currently sit in the pecking order. There was sadly some sloppiness from The Ascension during an opportunity to make themselves and Slater & Rhyno look good, so it could be a while yet before they get another shot like this going forward.Theres not much to say about the other tag-team match on this show; neither team even got an entrance in a rematch between The Usos and The Hype Bros. Jimmy and Jey made quick work of Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley, with Ryder continuing to sell a knee injury. For a team that got quite a buzz a week ago with a full-blown sudden heel turn, The Usos didnt get to show all that much in this brief showdown, but its clear theyre ready to circle back around for another go at the titles.Things clearly arent over between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton, but there wasnt much that was new or fresh to their confrontation Tuesday. Having Erick Rowan attack Orton smells like a bit of desperation; hes gone from good to bad (and Wyatt friend to foe) as many times as the Big Show has over the last couple of years.Time to face the facts: Curt Hawkins debut this week was a continuation of his previous skits, only with him reciting these lines in person. It was utter cheesiness -- a mix of 80s over-the-top wrestling character and modern day meta-awareness.?Baron Corbin and Apollo Crews squared off at the very tail end of their respective NXT runs -- each of them performing quite well, with promise but rough around the edges. This match never happened, as Corbin took out Crews on the outside, but one of the most interesting developments of the evening was Jack Swaggers?spontaneous appearance in confronting Corbin.There was a brief mention on Raw of Swaggers contract coming up, and in leaving Raw for SmackDown as a free agent, we have our first taste of a talent going from one roster to another. It shows that such a movement is possible, and opens up a world full of possibilities, including future drafts with many different potential formats, trades and other forms of free agency. It was also another in a growing series of subtle interactions between the two shows without much direct conflict. ' ' '