Edson Arantis do Namament - the most famous and, perhaps the greatest football player of all time, was born in Brazil on October 23, 1940. Rose in the poor family. Since childhood, he was fond of the game, in which he later became a cumier for millions, although his first balls were made of socks and newspapers.
Since 1956, when he signed his first professional contract, and to a farewell match in 1977, he scored 757 heads (or 1283 goals, depending on how to count) and won the three World Cup. Pele is called the black pearl and king of football. No other player approached its achievements. He was recognized as the best football player of the 20th century according to the FIFA football commission and the best athlete of the 20th century according to the International Olympic Committee.
In the summer of 1958, an incredibly talented, but still very young Pele flew to Sweden with the Brazilian national team for the World Cup. When he returned home, his name knew all over the planet.
Phenomenon
Pele (right) with comrades on the team "Santos" in 1957. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
Pele was not 16 years old when he joined the composition of Santos, his first professional club for which he played his first international match and scored his first goal, as a result of which, on July 7, 1957, Brazil beat Argentina with a score of 2: 1 . In less than a year later, the Pele will be a football star in Sweden.
Check
Doctors inspect the pele in 1958. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
In 1958, the Pele took place in the Brazilian national team at the World Cup, after which he was injured knee, which did not allow him to participate in the first two tournament games. (Brazilians won against Austria and tied with England.) The young striker came out in the starting lineup of his team on the game against the USSR national team.
Debut
Pele (third left) is built into line with the Brazilian national team before the match with the national team of the Soviet Union. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
On June 15, 1958, Pele became the youngest participant in the world championships, this record belonged to him for 24 years. (In 1982, the record broke the Northrlandian football player Norman Whiteside, who was 17 years old at that time and 41 days, that is, six months less than Pele in 1958.) Brazilian footballer Vava, Comrade Pele on the team, scored two goals in the game with Soviet national team, and Brazil beat the USSR with a score of 2: 0.
Strategist
Pele, known as the "grandmaster" of Pas, for a desktop game. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
First goal
Comrades Pele on the team congratulate him after a winning goal. Photo: Mondadori Portfolio Via Getty Images.
In the quarterfinals, Brazil played against Wales. At the 66th minute, Pele opened the score and scored the only goal in the match. Brazil reached the semifinals, and Pele entered his name in the book of records, as the youngest player, ever scored a goal at the World Championships.
Distribution autographs
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Hat trick
Pele scores the first of three heads on June 24. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
On June 24, the Pele scored three balls - the third, fourth and fifth, as a result of the Brazilian team beat France's national team with a score of 5: 2. French football player Just Phonten, winner of a record in the number of heads scored at one World Championship (13 goals at the World Cup 1958) later said: " When I saw the game Pele, I felt that I was time for a deserved rest».
View from the tribune.
Pele scores another goal in the gate of France.
In the first stripes
Pele with teammates browsing newspapers before the match with Sweden. Photo: Philippe Le Twee / Paris Match Via Getty Images.
Pele relaxes in training. Photo: Keystone / Getty Images.
Two kings
The future king of football and the King of Sweden on the World Cup final. Photo: Keystone / Getty Images."And when the king of Sweden descended from the stand on the field to shake my hand, swept his head:" God knows if the father knows about it there, in Brazil? ".
Game with shchens
Pele and Swedish goalkeeper Calle Svensson in the World Cup final. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
On June 29, Brazil met at the Championship with the host country - Sweden. The host of the tournament was scored the first goal on the fourth minute of the match, but Brazil grabbed the initiative and drove the ball twice into the goal of rivals.
Defeat Swedes
Photo: Bettmann Archive.
At the 55th minute, Pele scored a spectacular goal.
Pele at number 10 with their teammates on the field after the victory at the World Cup. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
In the 90th minute, Pele scored a goal again, this time head. It was his second goal in the game, Brazil won with a score of 5: 2. " And then I suddenly lost consciousness before the gateand, - recalls Pele in his autobiography "Confession of Lost in Life", published in 2006. - Harrincha ran up and raised my feet to go to the head. When I woke up, the game was finished. I was overwhelmed with emotions».
Pele celebrates Brazil's victory. Photo: Philippe Le Twee / Paris Match Via Getty Images.
Takeoff
The Brazilian and Pele national team retained the championship title and the next two World Cups (three times in a row).
Photo: Philippe Le Twee / Paris Match Via Getty Images.
Photo: Philippe Le Twee / Paris Match Via Getty Images.
In 1977, Pele, collecting an extraordinary collection of awards and titles, played a farewell match and completed the football career. But his popularity, as well as skill, remained phenomenal. In 1994, he became the UNESCO Ambassador, in 1995 - Minister of Sports Brazil, and in 1999 IOC called him the greatest athlete of the century.
When he wrote the book "I - Pele", many illiterate Brazilians began to learn a diploma to read the memoirs of the famous compatriot. He was photographed more than any movie star, and assigned a record number of ranks of the honorary citizen of cities and countries.
And everything began in Sweden. Photo: Popperfoto / Getty Images.
In the history of the World Cups there is only one player who has conquered a trophy three times - this Edson Arantis do Namament, or simply . The legendary Brazilian took part in the four world championships, played 14 matches and scored 12 goals. When you look at the old video with the goals of the king of football, you are affected by a combination of excellent technology, plastics and physical strength.
Debut for became the World Championship of 1958 in Sweden. In her first match with the USSR national team at the group stage, the Santos striker did not differ, but four days later the only goal brought the Brazilians victory over Wales in the quarterfinals. How beautiful everything did in this episode (on video - 00.15)! He took the ball on his chest, a sharp movement left the defender in fools and sent the ball into the grid. By the way, it is still the youngest goal in the history of the world championships: the attacker at that time was only 17 years old, seven months and 27 days.
"Father, do not cry, I will win the World Cup for you!"
The Great Pele recalls the 1958 World Cup and their goals in the final match.
He began great at the World Cup 1958 and continued even more brightly. In the semifinals, he sat the hat-trick into the gate of the French national team, and in the final she scored two goals to the owners. The victorious goal of the Swedes (on video - 01.10) can also be reviewed a hundred times. Brazilian again treated the ball with breasts, and in an even more difficult situation, deftly threw it through the opponent and struck the goal.
At the World Cup 1962 in Chile, Pele played only in two starting matches - with Mexico and Czechoslovakia. The rest of the tournament missed he because of injury. The striker could be the main star of the championship, but was forced to watch the Brazilian national team bursts in Playoff England, Chile and Czechoslovakia in the final. Pele managed to score Mexico, and this goal (on video - 01:00) became one of the most beautiful performed by the legendary Brazilian on world championships. The irrepressible striker on the road to a foreign goal beat four rivals!
English World Cup 1966 Brazilian national team failed, failing to leave the group with Portugal, Hungary and Bulgaria. Pele was noted only by the victorious goal in the Gate of Bulgarian from the penalty area (on video - 00.25). However, on the next World Cup 1970 in Mexico, the SELESAO attack leader was recognized as the best player of the tournament. Now Brazil easily won a group with England, Romania and Czechoslovakia. In the 1st round, Pele scored one ball with Czechoslovakov, and in the 3rd made a double at the gate Romanian. With Peru in the quarterfinals and Uruguay in the semifinals, Brazilians coped without precise strikes of the attacker, but in the final meeting with Italy, the score was opened by Pele. After throwing into the penalty, he chose the correct position and irresistiblely punched his head (on video - 01.40).
"Sorry for indiscrimination, but I have never seen a player who would be better than I am at the 1970 World Cup," says Pele. And you will not argue with him.