At nine years old, Pele made a promise to his father that he would bring the Jules Rimet trophy back to Brazil one day. He did. Three times to be exact. Celebrating Pele, the greatest player in World Cup history. ✍️ Zonal_Marking
Receiving the ball on the right flank, he knocked the ball past one defender, and ran around a second to reach the ball before a third defender, before simply surging past another opponent and belting the ball home with his left foot before a fifth defender could intervene.
But that was the end of Pele’s tournament. He sat out the next three games, intending to return for the final, before pulling up in a training session just beforehand. A distraught Pele wanted to return to Brazil, but the management convinced him to stay to make Brazil’s starting XI less predictable for their opponents — who, once again, were Czechoslovakia.
Pele’s World Cup, though, is remembered primarily for the physical treatment he suffered, and Bulgarian defender Dobromir Zhechev was particularly aggressive. “He seemed to mistake my ankles for the ball,” Pele wryly observed.But this was relatively common practice. “I think every team will take care of him in the same manner,” offered Hungary boss Lajos Baroti, by way of defence. That proved prescient.
Brazil were eliminated and Pele was so furious by the failure of referees to penalise foul play that he announced his international retirement. “The games were a revelation to me in their unsportsmanlike conduct and weak refereeing,” he later explained. He suggested that there was a conspiracy frompresident Stanley Rous to have Brazil eliminated from the tournament, to the benefit of Rous’ home country, England.
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