Memory of pele. The life of a football player who is considered the best in history - in photographs • Meduza • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive
Memory of pele. The life of a football player who is considered the best in history - in photographs
At the age of 82, Edson Arantis Du Nasent, better known to the world as Pele, died, the former striker of the Brazilian national team, according to various polls, is the best football player of the twentieth century. He is the only one in the story who three times became the world champion as a player - in 1958, 1962 and 1970 (and the Brazilian team - five -time world champion). During his football career, Pele spent 1363 games, scoring 1289 goals. Together with the Santos club, for which he spoke from 1956 to 1974, Pele became the champion of Brazil six times. In the fall of 2021, Pele underwent an operation to remove the tumor in the colon. The whole next year he passed chemotherapy. Medusa recalls the iconic facts of the biography of the great football player.
4imagens / Getty Images Pele in 1948 as the Bauru team, which his father Dondinho acted as the attacker. Since 1953, Pele himself began to play for this club, until at 15 he concluded a professional contract with Santos. Emilio Ronchini / Mondadori / Getty images players of the Brazil Piele, Zhilmar, Garrinch and Nilton Santos team on vacation in Stockholm during the World Cup, June 1958. AP / Scanpix / Leta 17-year-old Pele scores the third goal of the Brazilian national team against Sweden in the final of its first world championship. The match took place on June 29, 1958 at the Rosunda stadium in Stockholm. Brazilians won with a score of 5: 2. Pele was recognized as the best young player in the tournament. Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty images Brazilian fans welcome Pele after winning the 1958 World Cup in the city of Baura, where the football player grew. On the left is the Romi-Setta mini-car, which the mayor of the city gave the young attacker. Keystone / Getty images Pele during a brawl at the match between the Italian Inter and the Brazilian Santos in Milan, June 22, 1963. The meeting ended with a score of 2: 0 in favor of the Italians. 4imagens / getty images Pele with another car in Santus, San Paulo, 1960. When, two years later, Brazil for the second time will become the world champion at the tournament in Chile, Pole will be interested in several European clubs at once. To avoid the possible departure of a football player from the country, the government will declare a football player the "national treasure of Brazil." KLAUS Frings / AP / Scanpix / Leta Pele with their first wife Rosemeri spend a honeymoon in Germany, in the photo - a couple in the famous beer restaurant "Hofbrohaus" in Munich, February 26, 1966. Mirrorpix / Vida Press Pele at a training session in Bolton before the start of the 1966 World Cup in England. At this tournament, the Brazilians, at that time, the world champions at that time, could not leave the group, having beaten Bulgaria (2: 0), and then losing to Hungary (1: 3) and Portugal (1: 3). In the photo, Pele - the best striker of the Brazilian national team - is trained as a goalkeeper. Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty images doctors provide assistance to the injured pele at the Gudison Park CHM-1966 group stage match in Liverpool, July 19, 1966. In the course of this meeting, Piela did not distinguish anything, and the striker Esebio scored twice among the Portuguese. As a result, Brazil flew out of the tournament, and Portugal won bronze medals, having beaten the USSR national team (2: 1) in the match for third place. AP / Scanpix / Leta Piela scores with “scissors” - with a blow through itself in the fall. September 1968, the scene of the game is unknown. Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty images Pele on the set of the fantastic film "Adventures of Plinio Pompeu", April 18, 1969 Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty Images is crying surrounded by journalists after the 1000th goal in his career-this happened in the Santos match against Vasco da Gama at the Marakana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, 1969, this moment waited for a long time. And, in his own words, Pele, approaching the “point”, he could not cope with his nerves for the first time in his career and shaking with excitement. “Of course, I was hoping to score a thousandth goal from a penalty,” the football player wrote in his memoirs. - But at that moment I was mentally agree with this option. The deafening scream of the stadium seemed to stop the rain, which did not stop throughout the match. Because of the gate, a crowd of photojournalists rushed to me. Hundreds of spectators from the stands rushed after, not paying attention to the police. The fans rushed along the wet grass right to me. Someone tore off my T-shirt and handed another one, with a huge figure of 1000. Then they lifted me to my shoulders and carried around the field. From excitement, my tears came out. Crowds of people shouted welcoming exclamations. Finally, I was lowered to the ground, at the request of the public, I slowly ran around the field so that everyone could see my anniversary T -shirt. ” Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty images Pele on vacation during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico AP / Scanpix / Leta Pele beats the defenders of the Romanian team before opening an account in the match of the Group stage of the 1970 World Cup at the Halisco stadium in Guadalahara on June 10, 1970. Brazil won Romania with a score of 3: 2 and entered the playoffs, winning in all matches of the group (4: 1 against Czechoslovakia and 1: 0 against England). Granger / Shutterstock / Vida Press Pele scores the first goal against the Italian national team in the 1970 World Cup final at the Aztke stadium in Mexico City, June 21, 1970. Brazilians won the match with a score of 4: 1. Alessandro Sabattini / Getty Images Three-time World Cups-Fans congratulate Pele after victory over Italy in the 1970 World Cup final. The Brazilian striker was recognized as the best player of the tournament. Levy / AP / Scanpix / Leta PELE welcomes fans on the Champs Elysees on the way to the City Hall of Paris, March 30, 1971. The next day, the football player in Santos will hold a charity match in support of the French Foundation for the fight against cancer. Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty images Pele at the end of his last match for the match for the Brazilian national team-July 18, 1971, the Marakana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, a friendly meeting with the Yugoslavia national team (2: 2). In total, the striker played 92 matches for Brazil. Pele is considered the best scorer in the history of the national team - on his account 77 goals. Neymar has not yet completed a career in the national team now. Rich Pilling / Diamond Images / Getty Images in 1974 Pole completed performances for Santos. After that, he played in the USA for three more years for the New York Cosmos team of the North American football league. He played 107 matches for the club, scoring 64 goals. In 1977, he became the US champion with Cosmos and was recognized as the best player in the League. On October 1, 1977, Pele held a farewell match in which he played one half for Cosmos and Santos, and completed a football career. In the photo: Pele in the New York Cosmos match against Chicago Sting on Yankee Stadium in New York, May 2, 1976. Alexander Yakovlev / TASS PELEL in the USSR-a former football player at the opening of a golf club in Moscow, along with the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council Valery Saikin and the Swedish hockey player Sven Tumba Yukhansson, September 11, 1988. Valery Khristoforov / TASS Pele at the presentation of the Coffee "Pele" in Moscow, January 20, 1997. At that time, the former football player served as Minister of Sports of Brazil. Joulux / Vida Press in 2002 Brazil’s team in the fifth (and so far) times became the world champion, having beaten Germany (2: 0) in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. In the photo: Pele congratulates the striker Ronaldo, who scored both goals in the final and became the best scorer of the tournament (in total scored eight goals).
