Bailey

Bailey

Bailey

(Portuguese: pel é, Portuguese translation: Pele), full name

Edmund arantes do nasimento

(Portuguese: É dson arantesdo Nascimento), born in Brazil on October 23, 1940, is a famous Brazilian football player and a striker. He was once known as "the king of football" by FIFA.

In 1956, Pele began his career with Santos. During his career, he won two South American liberator Cup championships, two Intercontinental Cup championships, six Brazilian National Championships (predecessor), and 11 Sao Paulo State Football League titles. In 1957, Pele was selected into the Brazil national team, representing Brazil in 92 games, scoring 77 goals, winning the world cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970, permanently retaining the Rimet cup for Brazil, becoming the only player who won the world cup three times.

In July 1971, Pele announced his withdrawal from Brazil. In October 1974, Bailey announced his retirement. In 1975, Bailey made a comeback at New York Cosmos football club and won the championship in 1977. In October of the same year, he announced his retirement again.

In 1980, Bailey was named "the best player of the 20th century" by France's "team" and several newspapers. In 1999, Bailey was named "one of the best athletes of the 20th century" by the International Olympic Committee. In 2000, Bailey won the first Lawrence Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, Bailey was named "one of the best players of the 20th century" by FIFA. In the same year, French football organized 30 golden ball winners to select him as the best player, and was also listed by time magazine as one of the 100 most influential figures in the 20th century. In 2012, Bailey was officially awarded the title of "best player in history" by the Golden Foot award. In 2013, he won the first Golden Globe Award.

Early experience

On October 23, 1940, Bailey was born into a poor family in the town of tr ê s Cora õ es in Brazil. His father, don dinio, was also a player and did not succeed. His income was low. His mother didn't want Bailey to follow his father's path again, but Bailey loved football since childhood. At the age of 10, Bailey and his friends set up their own "Street Club on September 7" to play football in the streets of the small town, and at the same time, they made money for their families by shining their shoes.

Sports career

Club career

Join Santos

At the age of 11, former Brazilian international waldmar debrito discovered Pele's talent in football. Later, he took Pele to Baru athletic youth team in Sao Paulo, where he played for three years. At the age of 15, bongo club in Rio de Janeiro invited him to join, but Bailey's mother Celeste refused.

In 1956, Pele joined the Santos football club and trained with Zito, Pepe, Vasconsellos and fermiga. His performance during the trial training made Santos agree to sign a contract. Although the 15-year-old is very skilled, he is too thin to be relegated to the youth team. In September, Pele played for the first team for the first time and scored his sixth goal against Corinthians (not the famous Corinthians Football Club).

In 1957, Pele has been the main force of the team, scoring 36 goals in Sao Paulo State League, representing Vasco Santos united against European teams.

National team career

In July 1957, Brazil invited Argentina football team to visit and play two games. The first game was held on July 9. Pele put on the national team's shirt for the first time, which was just a reserve of course. When Brazil fell behind, the coach sent him to play. Pele scored a goal for Brazil, and Brazil lost 1-2. A few days later, the two teams met again. This time, Pele was chosen to play the left inside forward. As a result, Brazil won by two goals. Pele became an indispensable member of the Brazilian team after scoring one goal.

1958 World Cup

In 1958, Pele was particularly outstanding in the Rio Sao Paulo match. After Santos beat America 5-3 (Pele scored four goals), Brazil's famous playwright Nelson Rodriguez called him (orei) in his ball review. Later, Pele was selected into the World Cup team. The Football Association arranged a training match with Corinthian before the national team left. In the match, Pele was unfortunate He couldn't play in the first two games of the world cup. At this time, fiola insisted on taking the injured Pele to participate in the world cup, whose psychological test was considered as "naive and fragile".

In the game, Brazil beat Austria 3-0, and drew England 0-0 in the second group game. In the third qualifying match between Brazil and the Soviet Union, Brazil started with Pele, galincha, Zito and other substitutes. In the game, Brazil sent an assist to vanguard vava, which brought vitality to Brazil.

After Brazil successfully qualified for the group stage, the opponent in the quarter final was Wales. Didi hoisted the ball to the penalty area in the 70th minute. Bei used the action of picking the ball to turn around and score the only goal in the whole match, which made him the youngest scorer in the history of the world cup.

Against France in the semi-final, Pele scored three goals in 23 minutes in the second half to complete the "hat trick", and finally Brazil beat France 5-2 to enter the World Cup final.

On June 29, in the World Cup final against Sweden, Pele hit the post with his left foot in the first half after a row of kicks, and then picked the ball over the guard to shoot wide. In the 55th minute, Pele received a long sideways pass from Nilton Santos, picked the head of Swedish guard Gustafson, and volleyed the goal directly without waiting for the ball to land. At the end of the game, Pele used the header to shoot. Brazil scored five goals and Pele scored two in the final. Brazil won the world cup for the first time, and Pele, 17, became a world-class star.

Brazil's national treasure travels around the world

In the 1960s, football physical confrontation gradually rough, targeted tactics also gradually increased, Pele's defense is also increasingly tight, the difficulty of the game is also increasing.

In the second half of 1958, Santos became a popular foreign team. It started the 16 year "cave age" of the captain. In the undeveloped era of television broadcasting, the main income of teams was tickets and invitational games. At the beginning of the popularity of television broadcasting, many teams were not willing to sell their broadcasting rights because they were afraid of affecting attendance. Most of the teams who are willing to pay Santos to participate in the competition have good strength, and they are also proud to beat "Santos team with the title". Therefore, most of these Invitational matches have a certain level. Bailey has also honed his skills and physical fitness in the process of dealing with teams all over the world, and acted as a football ambassador.

In 1959, Bailey began to serve in the army. Throughout the year, he represented five teams to participate in various kinds of games (Santos, Sao Paulo all star team, Brazil national team, two teams of the army). As a result, he played 103 games (scored 127 goals) in one year! The trip to Europe in 1959 will never be forgotten. In just over 40 days, Santos has played 21 games with European teams, 12 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses, and they often have to play when they get off the train. Pele scored 26 goals in these 21 games, completely conquering European fans. Among them, Santos 7-1 Inter Milan game, Bailey big four Xi; 5-1 Barcelona, Bailey may open two; 6-0 Hamburg, Bailey scored a goal. In the 3-5 defeat to Real Madrid, Pele scored a goal despite the heavy workload. From May 12 to July 2, 1960, Pele visited Europe with Santos again. He scored 24 goals in 20 games, Santos 16 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. During his visit to Paris, Pele's excellent performance made the Frenchman infatuated with the champion again. From May 1 to July 4, 1961, Santos visited Europe for the third time. Pele scored 22 goals in 15 games, and Santos won 13, drew 1 and lost 1. On June 15, Santos won 6-3 over new champions Benfica.

Stay in Brazil

With Pele becoming more and more sharp, European clubs such as Juve, AC Milan and Real Madrid began to buy Pele from Santos, but Santos and Pele are reluctant to do the deal. Brazilian president yanio quidros is afraid of Pele's departure, and he is specially legislated as "a national treasure that cannot be exported". In this way, Pele's peak period was dedicated to Brazil.

Pele's 33 goals in 30 games helped Santos win back the Sao Paulo League title in 1960, but he was obviously more than satisfied with that. In 1961, Pele scored 47 goals in 26 matches in the State League. At the same time, he led Santos to win the national championship of Brazil (predecessor) in 1961. From then on, he started the dynasty era of five consecutive championships. Until 1966, he lost to Cruzeiro led by dosdon, who is known as "new Pele". In 1968, Santos won the Brazil national championship again. There is no doubt that Santos at that time was a world-class strong team. They had Pele, cortino, Pepe, dovar, Zito (captain), Mauro (captain of the national team), Gilma (goalkeeper) and mongavio, who were the best football team in the world in the early 1960s. Pele is omnipotent after the mature stage of ball skills, and his No. 10 has become the symbol of the technical core. In Santos team, he played the role of backwardness inside forward behind cotinho. He had a powerful shot and dribbling skills. He was able to organize the attack, pass the ball behind him, cooperate with his teammates in two passes and one wall strike, and also had 1

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