Pele impossible goal

Pele was nine years old when the Maracana River was flooded with silence.

Favorite, to host the final stage of the World Cup for the first time, the Brazilian national team needed a draw to win the Jules Rimet Trophy. On the front of the 1950 box office were the recently deceased star’s childhood idols: Friaca, Zizihno, Ademir, Jair and Chico. That childhood had reasons to believe: in the second minute of the second half, Friaka Verdimarella, as she was playing her first World Cup final, put her ahead. But the happiness of the whole country faded after half an hour, when Alcides Edgardo Giggia scored that hated goal, 11 minutes from time, which made Uruguay win its second championship and Brazil caused a long, desolate mourning.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, son of Dondinho, was marked by that devastating episode. Football was a tough thorn. And it penetrated deep into the hearts of a generation of boys who, years later, would change the scheme of the field. Play time as a liberator of destiny.

In 1954, with Nilton Santos, Djalma Santos and Didi already on the field, Brazil were crushed in the quarter-finals, in Bern, by one of the best players. Eleven From all history: “The Hungarian Wonderland”. But redemption and purification were on the horizon. In Switzerland, another idea of ​​the world began to take shape, without exaggeration.

Before he was 16 years old, Pele was already a professional with Santos (debuted against São Paulo, in a match where he scored his first official goal) and the national team (scoring in the 1-2 loss against Argentina). Every star needs two eyes to observe it day and night. Pele’s illustrious career would not have been possible (the eye is always the culprit) without the courage of Vicente Otalo Viola, Fatwho captained the Brazilian bench in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, in which the greatest jazz revolution in baseball would occur.

If German coach Sepp Herberger had given the game a command like a machine, a command over freedom, Viola had the men to enforce freedom as a discipline, in the double sense of the word: to delegate and act. And the boy Pele, who in seven years passed from reverence to idol, was the biggest daredevil in the future line-up of Fat, In which the redneck was traveling in the bag: Pele was cheerful, young and light. Football will remove the classic seams.

The rest of the penalty area can make the most of it against opposing goals. There has been no shortage of those who have criticized the coach for his call to promise, and they have plenty of facts in Brazilian clubs.

Pele landed in Stockholm, but did not play the first match against Austria. The big band accompanists: Didi, Zagallo, Mazzola and Nilton Santos. Viola, in addition to Pele, kept other instruments. The Brazilian team reached the final without defeat against the local team. Along the way, Pele scored his first World Cup goal in Gothenburg: in the quarter-final against Wales on June 19. He would score three more goals in Stockholm, in the semi-finals, against France.

For the stellar match, Feola sends his best cast onto the field: Gylmar; Djalma Santos, Nilton Santos and Zito; Melini and Orlando; Garrincha, Didi, Fava, Zagalo and Pele. These last five make up the most amazing strikers in history. Pele was not yet 18 years old and was already part of the most beautiful, refined and dynamic quintet of the most beautiful game.

Vava – who would later play in Mexico – scored Brazil’s first two goals in that final as Sweden kicked off the winning goal with a goal from Liedholm in the 4th minute. Then recovery and purging happened again. In the 55th minute: Edson Arantes do Nascimento, son of the frustrated Mineiro player Dondinho, scored the third Brazilian goal after an unforgettable technical display. And as a strange climax that closes and opens a new idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe world, he will score his second goal (the fifth for Brazil) in 1990.

Before becoming a Brazilian national, the 17-year-old star was already preparing for the position of king of the ball for the rest of the time. daredevil Fat Viola was right: the world needed a clever boy to change the pastime’s most popular cosmetics. Pele was that romantic.

Just as Pele dreamed of being a freak when he was nine, millions of children have been playing Pele since that summer of 1958. Santos’ form would become the design for post-war football and the first popular reference on a global scale. When the Internet was unexpected, his name was recognized even in places where television had yet to reach. The short and concise instrumental of his new name spread like a ball over the wet field of the quarters. In fact, Pele was the missing name from the heroic football saga.

Starting in Stockholm, any possible game, individual or team, on the field will be “invented” by the superstar. Everyone, as usually happens with true creators, wanted to imitate him, to approach, even little by little, his genius, his degree; Copy as a tribute, as a compliment. Not only in professional fields, but also on the outskirts, on the plains and on the streets of all cities, there were modest mentions of the Creator of Dreams. Impossible Football can only be made possible by notes on the idol’s past existence; If the most amazing goal did not fall, it was because Pele did not have enough time to achieve it.

Pele was promoted in 1962, in Chile, without even going through the entire tournament. In Mexico 1970, accompanied by ten fans admiring him from Sweden, he bid farewell to the greatest World Cup by defeating Italy. The Trinity has strange ways of expressing itself. At the Azteca stadium, smaller than the Maracanã, Pele hugged coach Zagallo, his 58-year-old teammate, whom he saw up close as the only three-time World Cup champion.

Pele left an earring.

In the semi-finals, against Uruguay, in Guadalajara, he was able to solve the triangle theory when he attempted goalkeeper Mazurkiewicz’s cross without touching the ball in midfield. The goalkeeper did not know who was chasing the scorer or the ball. Pelé later recovered the ground ball and formed a stepped triangle to finish the ball just before the goal. shooting. But the ball went out, just barely, by the goal: when all the stands of the Jalisco stadium rose to celebrate the extraordinary act of the magician. Football Analytics did not anticipate this possibility. This referee, who is perfecting his work, remains a challenge for the future. Few have attempted to complete the line left by 10 hanging.

Is this goal impossible?

When that happens, someone will remember Pele, the savior of the Maracanã. ~