Pele attacks Maradona (Reuters)
Pele won so many titles, love, and appreciation in his life - mainly thanks to his skills and personality - but the only injustice that was done to him is the fact that he played football in the black-and-white era, in the days when games were filmed with shoulder cameras, which were not broadcast directly and hardly crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Pele retired in the middle of my bar mitzvah celebration, but I got to see him broadcast in his farewell game in New York - where he played half for each of the only two teams he played for in his lifetime: Santos and the New York Cosmos.
He of course scored in this game, and was about to celebrate his 37th birthday.
The rest of the segments - well-shot documentaries - were usually broadcast to organized groups in cinemas with wooden chairs and cigarette smoke wafting through their spaces.
It was impossible to see Pele otherwise, unless you were lucky enough to go out of the country to watch him in person.
It happened to too few to tell.
Pele received his legacy and fame, mainly based on his unimaginable achievements and later thanks to YouTube, his name will be praised.
Do you know the High Lights, where there is no footballer from the age of 12 or older who is not proud of him in a YouTube advertisement?
Usually the player is marked there in a circle, so that it is not mistaken and we think that it is someone else.
There are an average of two goals there - one of which is filmed from 8 angles and broadcast at the beginning and end of the video and many passes and rescues and dribbles that lead to nothing.
On the stars there are videos of many beautiful performances.
Pele has a video - out of dozens - of 15 minutes that has something like 200 expats, only expats, no one is filmed twice.
Boom-boom-slalom-hit-boom-deception-slalom-boom-penalty-chip-boom-chip genius.
At some point you get bored.
It looks unreal and more in black and white.
Today, this man would tear up the web space, take it apart.
The cameras would pick up how the chain around his neck was swinging, how a bead of sweat was splashing from his nose, how his quadriceps were stretching to huge dimensions.
All this happened, really happened, but was not documented at a sufficient level for us to understand what it was about.
People didn't realize how good he was.
Pele (Photo: Reuters)
Pele started playing at the age of 15 and a half.
At the age of 16 he scored 58 goals in one Paulista, at the age of 16 and a half he was already playing in the national team.
He scored a hat-trick in one half in his first World Cup semi-final and another brace in the World Cup final itself.
His two goals in this World Cup were quite similar: in the final he caught a ball on his chest while in the air, with a Swedish keeper close to him, bounced the ball over a second player and without the ball falling on the grass, continued the kick with the same foot into the net.
He was 17 and a half years old.
We need to understand what period he played.
Pele played like this when the legendary Franz Puskas was still in his prime, Real Madrid player, eternal European champion.
The difference between them is huge.
Fuksash knew how to handle the ball in a miraculous way, but did not move.
Pele did everything Pokash did and more, when he was on the move.
There are many great players who have done many things with the ball.
They weren't necessarily the best in their field, but considering all their performances, they were huge.
Pele knew how to hit in a perfect way: a huge rise in the air, landing with a powerful forehead;
He controlled the ball completely, with the body, without the body, with the ball and without the ball, taking care of all parts of the foot, knee, hip, chest and shoulders - a memory of his beginning as a short-legged player;
His movement was determined, quick and powerful;
The timing when he touched the ball in a limited area was inhuman.
What Maradona did with agility, Pele did with nonchalance;
He was smart, he saw a game and pitch in a way that only a computer can see;
He kicked powerfully, from any position, from any distance, with both legs, full kicks, which spin on the road.
He did all the things that are done in football, but the best.
He was 30 years ahead of his time, and he is the only footballer who would probably fit into any team today, even though the pace is much higher than it was when he played.
Pele played at a tremendous pace, in his own right, so his abilities seemed inhuman at the time.
If it was also well filmed, his tape would be the real guide to how to do everything right, but everything.
There wasn't a single move he didn't make right.
He even recorded the most beautiful miss in history.
It was in the semi-finals of the 1970 World Cup.
Pele received a deep ball in front of the Uruguayan goalkeeper Mazurkiewicz, but chose not to touch the ball but to deceive the goalkeeper with his movement and run to the left, while the ball passed from the right side of the confused Mazurkiewicz.
Pele reached the ball at breakneck speed when he went around from the left, and in motion kicked a ball that went past the far post.
You can relax, he did it a few more times in his life, and it always ended up in the net.
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Pele also won the old World Cup (Photo: Reuters)
Pele played and scored in four World Cups, 12 goals in 14 games, won three World Cups and was injured in two of them, so in practice he influenced Brazil's winning in only two World Cups.
The presence of Brazil in his era in the World Cups - immortalized.
In the first World Cup, at the age of 17 and a half, he scored six goals in four games.
In the last World Cup he was so dominant, to the extent that Brazil 1970 is considered the greatest team of all time, and even the young commentators find it difficult to argue about that.
Four goals, four brilliant assists (to Rivalino and Carlos Alberto without him seeing them), two magnificent misses (the second turned Gordon Banks' save into the "save of the century"), and six outright victories.
And he did this at the age of 30, after returning from retirement from the national team.
But Pele was not just a national team player, and the fact that he played in one team until Cosmos, is crazy.
Milan had already almost signed him, until he was declared a "national treasure" in Brazil so that they would not touch him.
Pele played in a team that, until he started playing in it, was almost without achievements, and even after he played in it, it barely did anything.
6 championships out of 8 were won with him (the other two were with Robinho at the beginning of the millennium), 2 of the 3 wins in the Libertadores were won with him (the third with Neymar) and of course the Intercontinental Cup, the World Team Championship.
He scored a hat trick in Lisbon against Benfica and a hat trick against Milan.
Napoli with Maradona and without him was not the same, but it is a team that plays and excites to this day in the Champions League, but who the hell is Santos, if not Pele?
The same words can be written about soccer in the United States before Pele and after Pele.
The fact that George Best and Franz Beckenbauer came to the United States after him, and even Johan Cruyff, and Motella Spiegler and David Primo played with him in the team, is mainly the fact that he turned - almost single-handedly - soccer in the United States, soccer, into a legitimate sport. Other So the women came and made him a winner as well.
Who were they without him?
Pele in a Santos uniform (Photo: Reuters)
As between the fans between Ofra and Jordana, the world of soccer fans has been arguing for years about who is bigger, Messi or Ronaldo.
When the World Cup comes, the comparison also includes Maradona.
The veterans manage to bring Pele into the story, in the fight against Maradona.
This comparison is sad, and not because Pele scored more goals - official and unofficial - than any other footballer in history, but because he played on shocking surfaces, against brutal pacers who today would be sent off in the fifth minute, did not take drugs, did not hit with the hand, did not use nutritional supplements , and not in blood flow restorers.
The comparison of who is bigger insults Pele, like in basketball it insults Michael Jordan.
He was the greatest of all.
Bye par.
Bye par.
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