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The all-time best tournaments

With the European Championship and Copa America set to kick off in little more than two months, Miguel Delaney looks back at the 10 greatest international tournaments in football history.

10. 1958 World Cup | Winners: Brazil | Runners-up: Sweden

The birth of Brazil's legacy of World Cup glory, led by a 17-year-old Pele. It's fitting, then, that this was the birth of the modern World Cup. It was the first to adapt a modern structure, with a symmetrical 16 teams and four groups of four playing a round robin, but perhaps just as fitting it still produced football from an old era.