Hap Hapablap
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Doesn't sound good.
Brazil need to win this tournament now.
Their press will be heaping the pressure on them.
Best WC ever,1970.Sad news,
Remember Brazil 1970 team.
Just thought they were incredible.
There has never been another team as good as that ever 0028.Best WC ever,1970.
Sad. news about Pele
Would love it if that happens.Would be a fitting tribute to him if they could manage it, and he could hang on long enough to see it
Couldn't agree more.Greatest footballer of all time , three times World Cup winner.
An incredible talent and will be a sad loss to everyone who loves the game.
Hope his final days are painless and peaceful.
First part is subjective.Greatest footballer of all time , three times World Cup winner.
An incredible talent and will be a sad loss to everyone who loves the game.
Hope his final days are painless and peaceful.
Really hope he can hold on to see Brazil win another World Cup,Doesn't sound good.
Totally agreePele and the 1970 team were the greatest National team I have seen. What a front five they had with Jairzinho scoring in every game.
I think the football world will all be Brazil fans just now.Would love it if that happens.
Aye sounds bad Hap. Best player I’ve ever seen.Doesn't sound good.
Absolute genius at work there. Wish it had gone in.I remember the first time I saw that miss where he dummies the keeper.
Just kept pressing rewind in awe of what I'd seen.
Pele will always be a footballing genius.
The fact he missed it, makes even more beautiful, imo.I remember the first time I saw that miss where he dummies the keeper.
Just kept pressing rewind in awe of what I'd seen.
Pele will always be a footballing genius.
I’m a friend of John Wark who was also in Escape to Victory and he said Pele scored his overhead kick in the first take for the recording.His overhead scissor kick goal in Escape To Freedom was the goal of what dreams are made of. I think my back pain stems from me recreating that goal hundreds of times! I hope his final days/hours on this earth are as easy and pain free as possible.
Not surprising.I’m a friend of John Wark who was also in Escape to Victory and he said Pele scored his overhead kick in the first take for the recording.
An outstanding talent and 1970 WC epitomises everything about him and that particular team.
What happened after the feint was immaterial. Would have been nice if he scored but what he did there demonstrated how far ahead his brain was compared to anyone else playing in that era.The fact he missed it, makes even more beautiful, imo.
Yip, sky now saying he's now responding well to treatment.Conflicting reports about this here in Brasil. Some confirm this story, but TV saying he is 'under observation' and has 'responded well' to treatment.
We'll see.
The fact he missed it, makes even more beautiful, imo.
That was ridiculously good, he was running at full pelt - and he could do a sub-11 seconds 100 metres in football boots on a grass pit - but he still manages with one touch to put spin on the ball to bring the ball back his way after he had rounded the goalie.I remember the first time I saw that miss where he dummies the keeper.
Just kept pressing rewind in awe of what I'd seen.
Pele will always be a footballing genius.
He's not gone yetHad a good life.
Rest easy.
Typecasting. He scored a similar goal in Escape to Victory as well.His overhead scissor kick goal in Escape To Freedom was the goal of what dreams are made of. I think my back pain stems from me recreating that goal hundreds of times! I hope his final days/hours on this earth are as easy and pain free as possible.
Didn't he put a false moustache on and play for Saudi Arabia in the final?A personal anecdote concerning the great man. In 1989 Scotland hosted the World Under 16 Championship with the opening ceremony and match being held at Hampden. Pele performed the opening ceremony and then left accompanied by FIFA offficials to Glasgow Airport. Yours truly along with wife, 2 year old son and parents were there, also our then manager Graeme Souness who was in fact on our flight to Majorca. The queue for autographs from Pele stretched around Glasgow Airport's departure lounge where he sat patiently with a coffee signing ''Regards PELE'' It is the only autograph I've ever asked for.
Greatest footballer of all time , three times World Cup winner.
An incredible talent and will be a sad loss to everyone who loves the game.
Hope his final days are painless and peaceful.
Greatest team ever.Sad news,
Pele still is the greatest player I have ever seen,
3 World cups, and part of the greatest football team I have ever seen, Brazil of 1970,
Yeah everyone of them was a maverick with the ball at their feet an absolute joy to watch, the way football should be played .Only other team to come close to them was their 82 team who somehow never managed to win it, thoughts with the man they called The Black PearlThere has never been another team as good as that ever 0028.
It was like watchingvthe Harlem Globetrotters on a football park.