Peeled

Biography

Beginnings

Peeled is the son of a professional football player (Dondinho). Located as of the 11 years age by Waldemar de Brito, its talent for the round ball leads it to attend only the stages. It integrates into thirteen years the team of Bauru-SP where it remains until 1956. Become professional, it joined celebrates it club of the Santos FC at 15 years, where it remains until in 1974. He plays its first official match in September 1956 against SC Corinthians, during which he marks. He is not yet 16 years old.

The confirmation of the legend

In 1958, it takes part in its first World cup of the FIFA at 17 years only in Sweden. He plays only starting from the third match, against the USSR. He is established at the request of the remainder of the team, which wants an association Garrincha - Vavá - Peeled in front. In spite of its young age, Pelé plays very well. He becomes the youngest player to raise the Football world cup after having marked its first goal against the Wales in quarterfinal, having eliminated the France from Just Fontaine by registering three goals in semi-final (5-2) and to have marked two goals against the Sweden finally.

When it returns in its country and plays for its club, Pelé very quickly becomes an idol. 127 goals in 1959, 110 in 1961, two Copa Libertadores (1961, 1962), two intercontinental cuts (1962, 1963), nine championships of Sao Paulo. Peeled gains many titles.

Black competitions and the return of Peeled to glory

In 1962, the World cup of the FIFA in Chile seems to be his. In full rising curve, it however will have to let its fellow-members preserve their title without him, wounded as of the first match. In 1966, even thing. Attacked by Jetchev, defender of Bulgaria beaten by 2 to 0, from which a goal of Peeled, the other being registered by Garrincha, then by Morais at the time of the third match, lost against Portugal d' Eusébio by 3 to 1, it must leave on a stretcher and see since the platforms its team being made eliminate by the good team from Hungary d' Albert, Farkas and others on the score from 3 to 1.

The “black Pearl” shows all the extent of its talent at the time of the following edition. In Mexico, in 1970, surrounded by Jairzinho, Tostão, Rivelino, Carlos Alberto it plays on its best level. During the competition, retransmise color by televisions of the whole world, it tries a lob of the central round vis-a-vis in Czechoslovakia and carries out a large bridge without touching the ball in front of the guard of Uruguay Mazurkiewieckz. Tarcisio Burgnich, the Italian defender in charge of the Peeled case, will say at the end of the match: “Before the match, I said myself: it is in flesh and bone, like me. I then understood that I had been mistaken”. Peeled and them his set out again with the trophy Jules Rimet, because of their third victory in this competition. Sunday Times titrates: “How do you spell Pelé? GOD”.

The departure of King Pelé

In 1974, Pelé eclipses footballistic scene. It returns one year later, with the the United States by signing a contract with the club of Cosmos New York “to make football really popular to the United States”. It is with this club that it disputes its last match in 1977 with the Giants Stadium.

In 1977, it stops definitively. J.B. Pinheiro, ambassador of Brazil to UNO, declares that “Peeled played 22 years with football and during this period, it made more for the friendship and fraternity that any other ambassador”.

A prolific striker

In 1969, Pelé had registered its thousandths drank with the Maracanã. On the whole: 1281 goals in: 1376 matches and 92 international selections.

Peeled and humane work

Peeled is a personality very respected by youth in Brazil. Its humane engagements are centered on the assistance with the problem childs. Peeled makes also countryside against drugs and promotes the sport like a social means of expression.

It supported Telethon televised for the problem childs, and the official reception that Ute-Henriette Ohoven, ambassador of good will of UNESCO, organizes every year in order to collect funds for the education of the children who are in the need. It uses its fame to promote the activities of the organization. It took part in the “party of the heart 2000” which was held with Rome, in Italy, to support the Israélo-Palestinian peace process, by showing once more its engagement, and to try to link the enemy parts thanks to the language of the Football.

Memorable goals

It finally marks, in Mexico City, the 100e goal of Brazil out of World cup. A pricked head taken with very high. “I felt something of special after this goal, because I marked head. My father, who was player him also, marked once five goals of the head in the same match. It is a record which I never could beat”, he explained later.

He finally marks two goals against the Sweden. One on which it carries out a blow of the sombrero on the last defender before beginning again of flight, the other on a deadened head which slips by in the attic window of the Swedish guard, jellyfish. Sigge Parling, Scandinavian defender, will entrust later: “After the fifth goal, I wanted to applaud it”.

Career

Clubs

1956 - 1974:
1974 - 1977: The United States

Prize list

World champion: 1958, 1962 and 1970 (Brazil).
Victorious of the Intercontinental Cut: 1962 and 1963 (Santos FC).
Victorious Recopa Sudamericana: 1968 (Santos FC).
Victorious of the Copa Libertadores: 1961 and 1962 (Santos FC).
Champion of the United States: 1977 (New York Cosmos)
Victorious of the Cut of Brazil (6): 1961,1962,1963,1964,1965 and 1968 (Santos FC).
Champion of the State of Sao Paulo (11): 1956,1958,1960,1961,1962,1964,1965,1967,1968,1969 and 1973 (Santos FC).

Personal distinctions

Better striker of the History of professional football any confused competitions (1266 goals)
Crowned “player of the XXe century” by FIFA
11 times better striker of the Championship of the State of Sao Paulo: 1957 (17 goals), 1958 (58 goals), 1959 (45 goals), 1960 (33 goals), 1961 (47 goals), 1962 (37 goals), 1963 (22 goals), 1964 (34 goals), 1965 (49 goals), 1969 (26 goals), 1973 (11 goals)
Meilleur South American player of the year: 1973
Better striker of the Copa America: 1959 (9 goals)
Ambassador for UNO and UNESCO with Education, Ecology and the Environment

Various and anecdotes

During the World cups of 1958 and 1962, the team of Brazil does not lose only one match when the tandem Pelé and Garrincha is on the ground. Handbook Francisco back Santos, known as Garrincha or songbird , will remain his adversary and its most frightening partner.
In the town of Santos, on November 19th is devoted “Pelé day”. It is the birthday of sound 1000e goal, registered voter in Maracana.
Pelé is currently in the fourth place of the best strikers in final stage of World cup behind its compatriot Ronaldo (15 goals, including 4 goals in 1998,8 in 2002 and 3 in 2006), Gerd Müller (14 goals, including 10 goals in 1970 and 4 in 1974) and Just Fontaine (13 goals in 1958). Moreover, he is the only footballer to have gained three World cups as a player. Thanks to its glorious past, he does not hesitate today any more to ask important seals for each emission and passage such as he carries out throughout the world.
He became the youngest player to be marked in a football world cup.
Married to Rosemeri in 1966, it have three children and divorced in 1978 to marry Assiria on April 30th, 1994. The couple currently has two children.
In 1970, the two factions implied in the civil war with the Nigeria got along on a cease-fire of forty-eight hours to look at Pelé giving a match of exhibition to Lagos.
Pelé was the first sporting personality represented in a video game with the play Pelé' S Soccer on Atari 2600.
It also played a friendly match with Lebanese club Al Nejmeh Beirut in 1974 (see the championship of Lebanon of football). It agreed to play with them to liquidate its massive debts.
the Football world cup of 1962 finished, of the opulent European clubs proposed important sums to engage the young player. The Brazilian government declared Pelé official national treasure however. What prevented its transfer.
Pelé was one of the first blacks to make the cover of stores Life.
With the automobile Grand Prix of Brazil, it gave on several occasions the trophies. However, in 2002, charged to agitate the flag with checkerwork to mean the end of the road, it missed the crossing of line of the first: Michael Schumacher.
Pelé published several autobiographies, held the high-speed motorboat in the documentary ones and compound various pieces of music, of which music of the film Pelé in 1977. It can also pride on a caméo in company many other well-known footballers of the years 1960 and 1970, in the film With us the victory. This last reports an escape bid from a prison camp Nazi.

According to him, its more beautiful goal was carried out at the stage Rua Javari at the time of a meeting of the championship of São Paulo against Juventude on August 2nd, 1959. No not existing recording, Pelé required to model it. Animation is included in Pelé Eterno, documentary on its career. It left the medium of the ground, it loba successively four adversaries whose guard, without allowing the balloon to touch the ground, and finished this action of any beauty by a head.
Pelé is one of the professional players having marked the most goal lasting a career (by confusing official and nonofficial goals). A total of 1266 goals in 1375 matches. It is placed behind Arthur Friedenreich of which the full number of its goals rises with 1329 goals for 1239 played matches, in a career starting in 1909 and being completed in 1935. One gives him officially only 555 goals in 562 official matches.
on February 9th, 2007, of the Brazilian investors, having as Peeled ambassador, signed in Geneva a single partnership in its kind with the Swiss football club FC Lausanne-Sport. The project entitled " Pelé" campus; will allow FC Lausanne-Sport to profit players trained in an academy from Sao Paulo, like obtaining an important financial support. In counterpart, this agreement will make it possible to the Brazilian investors to open a window in Europe with the players resulting from the academy of Sao Paulo.
It made the promotion of the commercial drug Viagra on behalf of the laboratories Pfizer. The French slogan was: " Because I am a homme".

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