It's a compilation that has been circulating on social networks since the world of football realized that its first idol was about to retire forever.
We see Pelé trying and succeeding, almost always, most of the “signature” gestures of his contemporaries (Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Messi, Maradona, Zidane…).
Of course, the comparisons are sometimes forced, but they say everything about the immense technical palette of Pelé, the man with a thousand goals: deciphering of four acts of genius which continue many decades later to maintain the myth of the "King" Pele.
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1958: The best goal in a World Cup final (still today)?
This is the question that the world asks itself, on June 29, in front of this prodigious goal of the young Edson Arantes do Nascimento, which allows the Seleçao to widen the gap to 3 to 1 against Sweden, in the final of the World Cup .
We play the 55th minute, when Nilton Santos crosses towards the number 10 posted at the entrance to the penalty area.
The Brazilian striker rises to control the ball from the chest to the level of the head of his vis-à-vis, succeeds after the rebound with a sombrero shot over a second Swedish defender before volleying the ball which ends up in the back of the net.
In three touches of the ball, with incredible vivacity and precision, this Brazilian tightrope walker does not yet know that he has scored the best goal in history in a World Cup final,
nor even that he remains today the youngest scorer at this stage of the competition.
Who is he, by the way, this 17-year-old teenager?
Pele.
That's what it's called in Brazil.
Now the world knows it.
(6'20 on the video)
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1959: The most beautiful of all with Santos?
"I scored the most beautiful goal at the Maracana in 1961 after having dribbled past eight Fluminense players, we even put a plaque at the stadium", says Pelé in a documentary on the history of Brazilian football, regretting that "the tape of the match has been erased".
But in his autobiography, the "King" assures that the "most beautiful of all", he marked him two years earlier, still with Santos, against the Paulist rival of Juventus.
Here again, there were no images to attest to this, until technology, based on testimonies including his own, recently reconstructed the action in computer-generated images.
We see Pelé, on receiving a cross from the right, erase a first defender from a large bridge as an oriented control, then chain three shots with the sombrero, the last of which on the goalkeeper,
before heading the ball into the back of the net.
"Wait, you'll see," Pelé had warned the attention of the opposing supporters who had chambered him throughout the meeting in the Rua Javari stadium.
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1970: The magical (but incomplete) feint against the Uruguayan goalkeeper
Garrincha had made a specialty of passing legs.
Pelé also had his little pleasures, among which the one-two with the adversary, whose legs he aimed to better recover the ball in the chosen direction, as in billiards.
And from two cushions to one cushion, there is only one step to see the Brazilian succeed, against Uruguay in the semi-finals of the World Cup, which will become the feint that bears his name.
Or rather a frantic race towards the ball, which Pelé finally chooses not to touch to better surprise the goalkeeper who came out to meet him.
As expected, the leather continues its trajectory and Pelé makes a success of its large bridge on the doorman.
The action is sublime, almost virtual, without contact between Pelé and the ball, between the painter and his painting.
But it needs a final touch.
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1970: a header for eternity against Italy
If his goal, for the opener of the Seleçao in the final of the Mexican World Cup against Italy (4-1), was a poem, he would begin with this verse from Lamartine: "O time suspend your flight". During this A moment of eternity made football, Pelé rises, seems to defy gravity before catapulting the ball into the net.Never before has a physical manifestation of an athlete at the top of his game supported the symbol. , Pelé is definitely a legend, the world at his feet.
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