We had to change our manager just a few months before the tournament, but the players trusted each other totally. We gelled so well, I think that’s what made our play look effortless. And, of course, we had Pelé. We were team-mates at Santos so I knew how important he was to winning. Playing with Pelé felt like you had God on your side.
Source: Guardian, 30 october 2016
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Carlos Alberto on the 1970 Brazil national team:
Pelé as a goalkeeper
When you’ve famously scored more than a thousand goals and have gone down in history as one of the best players ever (if not in fact the best one), you can hardly be said to have missed your calling. Still, if the pictures below of a seventeen year old Pelé in action as a goalkeeper are anything to go by, it would seem a decent goalkeeper might have been lost in the legendary Brazilian striker. Because that seems like an excellent save he pulls of in the face of two onstorming attackers.
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