For Brazilians, football is the language of the soul. For South America, including Brazil and Argentina, the showcase of Latin beauty, soccer is not just a game; It preserves the class, gender, national and authentic aspects of identity and culture with a strong foundation and the support of the entire people. When yellow parrots dance on the lawns to the beats of samba music, it is the football of poetic language. There was a time when the Brazilians preferred elegance over success, even if the great game was interrupted somewhere. Edson Arranes Donacimenera, Pele, is the best example of football in those bright days, like Van Gogh, who devoted his heart to the perfection of his writings.
A prodigy who has epic performances in world football at the age of seventeen. The play that led his country to world dominance in 1958 and 1970. Based on chronology and playing skill, it can be said without doubt that Pele is the first international footballer on earth. At a time when the spectacles of games from around the world did not reach our living rooms at all like today, the fame of the black pearl that shined through invisible charm for a decade and a half in Brazil’s left inside position became the perfume of football all over the world, blowing like a pleasant wind in the heartstrings of any football lover.
What makes Pele one of football’s all-time greats? 1282 goals from 1,362 games including exhibition matches. An invisible genius, an uncanny ability to create timeless wonders out of nothingness. The story of Edson Aranes Donacimenera, an eleven-year-old with a long name who went to help his family by dressing up as a newspaper seller and a cobbler, and later became the most powerful personality in Brazil and a beacon of football in the two letters Pele, is a much-repeated story.
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It may be poetic justice in football that a black pearl finally came to place Brazil, which had banned blacks until the mid-1930s, on the world throne. Pele’s life story and the impeccability of Brazil, who flourished as a super team for a brief period from 1958 to 1970, are more complementary to each other than anywhere else in world football.
On July 7, 1957, at the age of 17, Pele made his debut for the national team with a goal against Argentina. At 10 minutes into the second half, Swee Karich received a pass from his friend and turned around to face his own post. The ball, which turned around in a flash and fell down, was fired before it touched the ground. Goal…. The stadium erupted. All within seconds. That pearl-like goal that beat the defense and the goalie at once became a part of history. Pele played four matches in the tournament and scored six goals. Millions of people who have been in poverty for years have seen the new writing of the third world through the eyes of Peleil, as in South America, children including Africa have become the reason to write new dreams. The number 10 shirt worn by Pele in the World Cup became a symbol of greatness.
In the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Brazil retained the title thanks to the incredible brilliance of replacements Amarildo and Garinjo when Pele was ruled out after two games with an injury. Four years later in England he was trampled by his rivals. Pele, who left the field after being fouled during the match with Portugal, went so far as to say that he hated the game of football.
Brazil, the three-time champions, took home the Ulrime Cup, the predecessor of the FIFA Cup, forever in 1970 Mexico, the most complete team in history, with Pele’s brilliant performance, which was declared no more for the World Cup, but changed its mind. “That’s beauty. That group of canaries gave the world football full of wind, bursting with the poetic flavor of the imagination and the strategy of group power, which is the basic concept of human minds around the world, which Albert Camus described as “beauty without infinite repetition”.
Despite strong pressures and temptations, he did not return to the team, as he played for the last time in a national shirt in 1971 at the age of thirty-one. He joined Santos, the blue land of Brazilian football, in 1958 and was a member of the club until his retirement in 1974. Later, he took up the task of promoting football in the United States and bought a huge reward and put on his boots for the New York Cosmos club. With the presence of Pele and German legend Becken Bauer, who won the North American artistic crown for the Cosmos, football was raised and the game went on to attract huge crowds in America. Finally, in 1994, they successfully staged the largest-attended World Cup in history.
Pele’s farewell match in 1977 was emotional. In the match between his clubs, Cosmos and Sanos, the king of football couldn’t hold back his tears when he sang the swan song in the second half wearing the green jersey of Cosmos and the white jersey of Santos in the second half. No other sportsperson in the world has captured such a name and fame and the love and respect of crores of people. Success has never gone to his head, nor has he sought fame. As in his childhood, when poverty, suffering and poverty made his daily life hell, playing football was his soul till his last breath. It was Rose Mary who inspired him on the field. It is that achievement that made Pele, who loved the ball as he loved Rose Mary, unique and invincible in life and in the game.
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