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Today, I officially declare
the 1970 World Cup open.
The 1970 World Cup is underway!
My father said,
“Football is for people who have guts.”
Everything that came out in the press,
that I didn’t have what it took to come back, that I wasn’t in good shape…
Pelé’s form has declined to the point he’s no longer the Pelé of old.
…it was a lot of pressure.
It's no longer time for talking.
It's time for fighting.
The World Cup was important for the country.
But at that moment,
I didn't want to be Pelé.
I didn’t like it, I didn’t want it.
I was praying,
"God, please help me. This is my last World Cup."
Brazil is my country.
It means everything to me.
It's the country that brought me into this world.
Brazil was a "young" country, very much unknown.
I can remember my grandparents delivering wood.
They had a horse and cart,
and I rode on the horses a lot when I was about ten.
I had no idea that other countries existed.
I thought Brazil was the most beautiful country in the world.
We came from nothing and had very little.
We were poor, but we were able to work.
My dad worked.
My dad was a footballer, and his nickname was Dondinho.
I was known as Dondinho's son.
My dream was always to equal my dad.
I thought he was the best player in the world.
When Pelé arrived home from school,
all he did was play football with his friends.
He just loved football.
At home, he’d get up to mischief.
He was always a bit of a live wire.
There was a period in my dad's career
when he got injured and his club didn't pay him.
Pelé thought he should help out at home,
so he got a job.
I cleaned and shined shoes to help my family.
Did you ever dream that one day you'd become a famous footballer?
My background kept me levelheaded,
and still does,
which is down to my family.
I’ve never thought, at any point in my life,
that I am better than anyone else.
I'm lucky that these were the values my parents gave me.
But when my dad noticed that he was talented enough to become a footballer,
he really encouraged it.
So they went to Santos.
I was the first person at Santos who met Pelé.
We often had players come for a trial,
but they were never any good.
In that first training session, he showed his amazing talent.
He shook my hand so strongly that I thought,
"I want to be on his team and not against him!"
He arrived with such personality.
He wasn't afraid of anything.
It was as if he'd been with us for years.
I was only 16,
but I could now say that I was a professional footballer.
And then I was called up to the 1958 World Cup.
We had some idea of how great a player he could be.
But when he was called up to the national team,
we were simply overjoyed.
I said, "Cool, we're going to Sweden."
I'd never even left Brazil before.
We thought Brazil was well known in Europe,
but it wasn't.
There were some Swedish kids
who kept touching my face, and I thought,
"What's going on?"
They were looking at their hands to see if the dye came off!
They'd never seen a Black person before.
Back then, Brazil wasn't considered a football nation.
We weren't favorites by any stretch.
I saw a skinny kid
who should have felt the pressure of being called up to a World Cup.
But he didn't.
He was so confident.
Some journalists said that I was too young to play,
that I wasn't experienced enough.
But my dad always said to me…
"Don't worry, son. Believe in yourself."
"On the pitch, you're all the same."
And that thought lifted me.
The ball comes to Pelé, he controls it and shoots…
Pelé scores for Brazil!
In 1950, the World Cup was in Brazil.
We were just kids.
When Brazil hosted the World Cup in 1950,
there was a real hope that Brazil would make its mark
and leave behind its backward past.
There was no TV back then, so only those in the stadium saw it.
I was one of them.
There were 200,000 fans inside the Maracanã stadium.
Brazil was going all out to do everything possible
to appear on the world stage through football.
My fellow Brazilians, in a matter of minutes,
you will become world champions.
We kept our word and built this stadium.
Now do your duty and win us the World Cup.
Brazil on the attack…
It comes to Friaça… he shoots!
Brazil score!
We were all huddled around the radio,
chatting and listening to the game.
Ghiggia has it…
he finds Schiaffino… Uruguay score!
A goal for Uruguay. They've equalized.
Ghiggia on the right,
he runs towards the Brazilian goal…
Goal!
Uruguay score their second goal!
Uruguay win 2-1.
Everyone was silent on the streets.
It was truly a tragedy.
1950 represents
the great national failure.
It was after that defeat that the playwright Nelson Rodrigues
coined the term,
the "Mongrel Complex."
He meant that Brazil wilted, shrank into the shadows,
and praised the virtues of others.
"The others are great and we aren't worth a thing."
Because a mongrel is a street dog.
I didn't know what to say to my dad because he'd been crying.
So I said to him, "Don't worry, don't be sad."
"I'll win a World Cup for you."
In a few moments,
Brazil against Sweden will get underway in the World Cup Final.
Liedholm scores!
Sweden 1-0 Brazil.
Is it going to be another disaster?
Vavá finds Pelé,
and Pelé shoots!
What a shot by Pelé!
Nilton Santos crosses to Pelé, he controls it…
Incredible goal by Pelé!
He was a prodigy.
We used to laugh
because we were watching
the greatest player of all time emerge before our eyes.
Brazil are world champions!
It was a dream.
It was amazing.
I didn't sleep that night.
I didn't sleep because I wanted to find out if people back home in Brazil,
and especially my family, had listened to the games.
"Will they have seen my goals?"
Look at this scene!
The people have taken over!
People are jumping! They're shouting!
They're all here to celebrate Brazil's victory
and welcome home our incredible players.
Pelé emerges as the guy
who solved this Mongrel Complex.
He made Brazilians love themselves again.
Symbolically, that's no small thing.
Pelé was the man of the hour.
Wherever we'd go, it was, "Pelé, Pelé, Pelé…"
When people would come up to us, we'd say, "Look over there! There's Pelé!"
Everyone would surge over there, and we'd laugh so hard.
Girls wanted Pelé as their boyfriend.
Boys wanted Pelé as their brother. Parents wanted Pelé as their son.
And everyone wanted Pelé as their neighbor.
Because he was totally captivating.
His natural charisma
gave him star quality.
From that point on, his status just kept growing.
He was treated like royalty…
by Black, white, and mixed-race people.
He became the symbol of Brazilian emancipation.
I was able to experience the joy that everyone felt,
that Pelé fever.
You had poor boys in the favela
who saw themselves in Pelé and said, "I want to be like Pelé!"
Because he was the most inspiring image
that we'd ever had of a poor Black boy.
I couldn't go out. There were people wherever I went.
I didn't know what to do.
And then there were my dad's friends! They forgot about him,
and wanted to know about little Pelé instead.
So it was hard to adapt.
It must have been difficult for him.
He was so young,
and all he wanted to do was play football and show his talent.
Pelé… Pelé… Pelé…
Before Pelé, Santos was a small club.
They had no importance.
Pelé arrives.
Pelé single-handedly took the team to the next level.
It's not that Pelé made the difference.
Pelé was the difference.
The Brazilian kid isn't 19 yet.
He may well be the best footballer in the world right now.
Do you think you're the best player in the world since '58?
I've never believed in a best player in the world.
To be the best player in the world,
you need to be better in every position than everyone else.
And that's tricky, isn't it?
Pelé has just turned 21.
In the space of four years between 1957 and 1961,
Pelé has scored 355 goals.
An amount that even the greatest players only manage by the end of their careers.
While I am President of Santos,
Pelé will not be for sale.
He's a national treasure and won't be sold for any price.
Santos will play Benfica for the Intercontinental Cup.
Sensational goal by Pelé! A gem!
Santos 5-2 Benfica.
Santos are world champions!
I was lucky to have the boys at Santos.
They gave me a lot of strength.
So much strength.
If you don't speak in English, don't talk to me.
I'm the one working, and you guys come here and disturb me!
-But I'm well. -You're well?
Let's go.
Look how well I am.
Do you want to see? Let me go.
Stand back.
Look how well I am.
Did anyone call me?
He just did a doughnut!
You guys are the best.
You brought the sun with you.
What a beautiful day.
Edu wanted to get a tan.
It was God who put this team together.
It was incredible, wasn't it?
It was a family.
Something that Brazil owes Santos,
is that when we used to go on tour,
we'd beat the best teams in Italy, Germany, and all across Europe,
and people started talking about Brazil.
Nobody knew where Brazil was until then.
Do you remember that time we were playing in Europe?
And the coach said, "Damn, Pelé's injured."
He said, "Let's think about this."
"The rest of our attack is Black like you,
so Dorval can wear your number 10 shirt, and no one will know any different."
So I wore the number 10
but people quickly realized I wasn't Pelé,
and they all started chanting, "Pelé, Pelé, Pelé!"
And you had to come on, even though you were injured.
I think they must have thought,
"But Pelé is usually so handsome, it can't be him!"
They thought you were good-looking?
Come on, man, get over yourself!
You were the King. We knew that.
But we wanted to help and play our part too.
Ah, this whole thing of being the King…
Do you remember when we went to Paris and I sang that samba?
It went,
What kind of king am I
Without a kingdom or a crown?
With no castle or queen…
With no castle or queen Drifting aimlessly around the world
Well, at least your singing has improved!
The voice is as bad as it's always been!
Don't eat too much. We've got a game tomorrow!
That World Cup was there to be Pelé's tournament.
He was about to turn 22,
he was experienced,
and he was world football's biggest star.
We expected so much from him because of what he'd done in '58.
Then came the second game against Czechoslovakia.
Pelé hits the post!
Pelé is injured!
It was 0-0,
and Pelé got injured.
I didn't know what it was.
I was young, I was a kid,
I'd never had an injury like this before.
We were hoping he'd recover quickly,
but he wasn't able to play in that World Cup again.
Those were the cards that were dealt,
and Pelé's replacement was Amarildo.
I read a newspaper headline that said, "Brazil cries over Pelé."
And, of course, here in Brazil,
Pelé's absence was a tragedy.
But Pelé spoke to me and said,
"Hey, kid…
it's up to you now."
When you get injured
and have your journey cut short in a World Cup,
it's hard to take.
But I said to the other players,
"Come on, don't worry! We're a team, not just one player."
Zagallo takes the throw
and finds Amarildo.
Amarildo goes past his defender…
Brazil score!
Brazil! Brazil!
Brazil are now two-time world champions!
After the game,
when we were in the dressing room,
he came into the shower fully clothed
and gave me a big hug.
Despite not playing, he was there on the pitch in spirit,
spurring us on to success.
The World Cup is over!
Brazil win again!
Let's celebrate!
The late '50s and early '60s
were undoubtedly some of the best times
in Brazil's history.
Pelé rose to fame
at the moment of Brazil's birth as a modern country.
It was no longer just a country that exported produce,
but a nation of industry, efficiency, and culture.
It was a country that believed in itself and could succeed.
Brazil stopped being the country of tomorrow,
and became the country of today.
And Pelé is not a supporting actor in this, he's the protagonist.
King Pelé. Scene one, take one.
Pelé, the living room is full of people.
There are reporters in the kitchen!
I'm becoming famous.
Pelé came through at a time
when TV was getting big.
He was a product of his era.
Pelé, have you ever thought about working in the movies?
No, I've never considered it.
Pelé is no longer a footballer, but a national institution.
He loved being an idol.
So for him it was very natural,
as if it was built into his DNA.
This product is so cool!
He had this image of a strong, healthy young guy,
who scored a lot of goals and was center of attention.
He was magnetic.
-What's this coffee? -It's Café Pelé.
It's delicious!
You know it.
"Where do you come from?" "I'm from Brazil."
"Ah, the land of Pelé!"
He made Brazilians proud to say,
"We don't need to look up to the English, Germans, French, or Italians."
"They trail in our wake
because when it comes to football, we're better than you."
It was football that was now our identity.
Those were happy times.
We thought that democracy would last forever.
Unfortunately, it didn't.
What was the reason behind the coup?
Brazil was supposedly being led by communists.
But this had no grounding at all.
In 1964, there was no chance of Brazil becoming a communist country,
but that was the justification used by the military.
It was a U.S. project designed to stimulate dictatorships in the Americas
in order to avoid the spread of Soviet Communism.
A different Brazil had arrived.
All that joy
from the late '50s and early '60s
went down the drain.
Did the dictatorship change anything for you?
No, football went on in the same way.
There weren't any noticeable differences.
Certainly not for me.
I've been invited to participate
in politics,
but honestly,
I've got no desire to get involved.
Football already takes up most of my time,
and ultimately, I don't understand anything about politics.
Pelé simply accepted the regime and lived with it.
The fact that the regime wanted to treat him well,
because it realized how important this relationship was,
meant he was just a person that got on with his life
and wasn't harmed by it.
Pelé, three years ago
you told me you were looking to settle down.
How do you feel now you're in love?
I didn't tell people I had a girlfriend
so the papers wouldn't talk about it,
and it wouldn't become public.
The first serious relationship that made me want to start a family
was when I met Rose here in Santos.
I was a little shy.
Then I made friends with her father.
I'd offer to shine
her dad's shoes for his approval.
I thought it was time to settle down,
and I became closer to her family
until we eventually got married.
I married her because I was attracted to her. I was young, I was still a boy.
We liked each other and were good friends,
but that crazy thing of being in love?
We really didn't have it.
Do you have any hobbies in common?
Dancing.
Dancing, music… Popular music.
Do you and your husband have enough time together?
He knows how to split his time between football and family,
and it works well.
What was it like to be your wife? Do you think it was hard?
I think it was hard. I think so.
I started to have more professional commitments
outside of football.
I signed contracts
to advertise products around the world.
I began to travel more often for this kind of work
than for football.
That was challenging for my family and for my relationship.
I understood that.
Was it hard for you to remain faithful with girls throwing themselves at you?
Honestly, it was.
I had some affairs that resulted in children,
but I only became aware of them later.
My first wife knew about everything.
I never lied to anyone.
We're at the airport, and we're waiting
for Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé.
Mr. Pelé, would you like to introduce your wife to us?
I don't speak French.
You don't speak French?
Are you visiting Paris?
Yes, I've been visiting Paris with my wife and I enjoyed it.
I'd like to come back here in the future.
Who are the favorites for the next World Cup?
It's difficult for Brazil as we're going for our third World Cup in a row.
All the teams will be well prepared.
-But we'll do our best to win it. -Thank you.
I was chatting to some friends
about the Brazilian fans
who think we've already won our third World Cup.
We've even been given banners
saying, "Three-time champions," to sign at the hotel.
I don't like that.
I think that weighs horribly on us.
You have to let things happen naturally.
In football, you win or lose on the pitch.
-We'll win, won't we, Pelé? -God willing.
I had this dream
of winning the World Cup in England.
I thought Brazil could win,
become champions again, and my job would be complete.
What do you think about this type of defensive football
where they mark you tightly?
We have to get used to playing like this.
Football used to be more classic, something for the fans, a spectacle.
Now teams only play for results.
Football has become ugly. Teams are playing harder.
For the majority of players it was our first World Cup,
including myself.
Pelé was leading us as the best player in Brazil and in the world.
So our opponents set up a system
to mark Pelé out of the tournament.
"We've got to nullify the threat of Pelé."
Football today is different.
Football today is tougher,
there's more marking,
teams play more defensively.
Today it's common to hear,
"Let's target Pelé! Put three players on Pelé!"
I thought the standard of refereeing was deplorable.
And as a result of this woeful refereeing,
we were subjected
to new levels of violence in each game.
People are saying
that this was your last World Cup.
We can't let that happen because the world needs your football.
We need the spectacle that you give the fans
as the greatest player in the world.
-Is it true? -It is.
People have asked me this question a few times, so let me clear it up.
I don't intend to play in a World Cup again
because I'm not lucky in World Cups.
This is the second one I've been to
where I've only played two games and got injured.
It shook the nation.
It shook all us players too.
Why is Pelé quitting the national team
when he's young enough to play in more World Cups?
To be forced out of that World Cup was devastating.
I said, "Oh, man,
what now? What am I going to do?"
I thought, "I can end my run here."
I was upset, I wanted to say goodbye.
He was devastated.
It was hard to encourage him to play again,
because he was really down at that time.
Brazil had been very poor in England in 1966.
The country was already under a dictatorship,
but the situation worsened with Institutional Act Number 5,
the infamous AI-5, that was imposed on us in 1968.
His excellency, the President of the Republic,
has decided to implement an Institutional Act
that gives the government
the necessary tools
to secure order and peace.
It took away every freedom you could think of.
Anyone could be arrested
without due cause.
People simply disappeared.
My role was to sign AI-5.
Some have said it was used to torture people…
Obviously.
Because when man has power,
he's the only animal capable of killing his own kind.
General Médici was the dictator
during the worst phase of torture and murder.
He was the cruelest dictator that Brazil ever had.
He understood how football captivated people.
So it became common to see General Médici
watching football with a radio glued to his ear,
while political prisoners were being tortured elsewhere,
and the general was at the game creating a "nice guy" image.
Did you know about the torture happening in the late 1960s?
If I told you I didn't know anything,
I would be lying.
We knew about a lot of things.
But we weren't sure
what was true or false
because Santos spent so much time abroad,
we didn't know what news was true or not.
Here in Brazil, we were always told
to be careful and not leave the hotel.
I felt worried.
What was your relationship with the various governments like?
My door was always open.
Everyone knows this.
And that includes when things were really bad.
I was always sought out to take sides.
I don't know which political side he's on,
but Pelé has never been one to identify himself with a government.
He's always been much more than that.
Every country needs a hero.
People need to believe in something.
A sense of belonging
can be more important than your daily struggles,
and sport is part of that.
People aren't just paying attention to politics.
They're paying attention to what is more important for them,
and that's living their everyday lives.
Pelé helped in this process.
Pelé's achievements merge with national glory,
whoever wins.
A dictatorship? It wins with him.
A democracy? It wins in the same way.
Pelé's here with me,
and he's going to give us an exclusive interview.
Pelé! How emotional!
The pleasure is all mine,
especially when you consider the expectations surrounding today.
You can't even imagine how I'm feeling.
This is the ball for the 1000th goal.
It's the only one in the world
because no player has ever achieved this feat.
Pelé's name has just been announced!
This is an indescribable feeling.
Show these people who are cheering for the King.
The first sportsman in the world
with the chance to score 1,000 goals.
Congratulations, Pelé! Congratulations, Brazil!
We are 14 minutes from the end of the game.
Here's Pelé… Penalty!
A clear penalty!
All we had left in this sad struggle was football.
It was escapism for us in Brazil.
And in Pelé, we had an unrivaled leader and hero.
The stadium wants Pelé.
The biggest stadium in the world is ready for the biggest player in the world.
Here's Pelé with the goal of the century at his feet.
I thought, "If the keeper saves it
or the ball hits the bar, where are my teammates?"
I couldn't see anyone.
Everyone was behind me.
My legs were shaking. I said to myself,
"I can't miss this penalty."
Pelé was a shining star,
glowing in the black sky of Brazilian life.
He symbolized Brazil's potential
to be a fairer and happier country.
That's what Pelé represented.
Pelé, we thank you eternally
for what you've done for Brazil
and for our sport that is the soul of the people.
Pelé get some well-deserved rest.
No one deserves it more than you.
If I was ever told that anyone famous or important wanted to meet me
or have lunch with me,
then I would always go if I could.
I didn't see any issues.
I was told that the President wanted to congratulate me,
and so I went.
I was never forced to do anything. Never.
For many people, they'll look less at what he did on the pitch
and more at what he did off it.
Off the pitch, he's characterized by his political neutrality.
At that moment in history, it's going to count against him.
I love Pelé, but that won't stop me criticizing him.
I thought his behavior was that of a Black person who only said, "Yes, sir."
A Black person who is submissive, accepts everything
and doesn't answer back, question or judge.
It's one of the criticisms I hold against him to this day
because one single statement from Pelé would go a long way in Brazil.
Being who he was, he couldn't…
just turn his back on the President.
But then you could tell me that Muhammad Ali was different.
Indeed, he was.
And I applaud him for it.
Muhammad Ali knew
that he would be arrested for refusing the draft,
but he ran no risk of being mistreated
or tortured.
Pelé had no assurance of that.
A dictatorship is a dictatorship.
Only those who've lived it know how it hurts.
I don't think I could have done anything different.
Why?
"What were you doing during the dictatorship?"
"Which side were you on?"
You get lost in these things.
I'm Brazilian. I want what's best for my people.
I was no superman, no miracle man.
I was just a normal person
to whom God granted the gift of being a footballer.
But I'm totally convinced
that I helped Brazil a lot more with my football,
with my way of being,
than the politicians whose job it was to do this very thing.
TERESÓPOLIS WELCOMES OUR GOLDEN NATIONAL TEAM
COME ON, GOLDEN TEAM
It was a period where the dictatorship in Brazil was at its most extreme.
It was the peak of repression, censorship, and restriction of speech.
Amongst it all, there lay an oasis
of beauty and hope,
of positive and stimulating emotion,
which was the 1970 World Cup.
Since the fiasco of the 1966 World Cup in England,
the national team was in turmoil.
Winning the World Cup became
a government issue.
The technical staff
was almost entirely made up of military personnel.
A number of fascist slogans were created.
"Brazil, love it or leave it."
"No one can stop this country."
Nationalist euphoria took over in the worst possible way,
encouraged by the dictatorship.
Pelé doesn't like to deal with this subject,
but there were messages from the dictatorship
saying he'd better play at the World Cup.
For the President, that became
something of personal importance.
Why?
Because if the people are happy,
then the government is also happy.
Did you feel pressure from the government to come back?
Always.
I'd always get offers to go and speak to politicians and people in power.
There were always people wanting me to come back.
I was torn.
I didn't want to play in the '70 World Cup.
I didn't want to go through what I went through in England.
I was in doubt.
I was worried, but also I missed it.
I just wanted to be remembered.
But this is it.
This is my last World Cup.
King, are you ever coming back?
But if I sit here and say,
"I came back for the 1970 World Cup because of the Brazilian people,"
I'd be lying.
I came back for me.
What was Saldanha like?
The guy was crazy!
But he was a damn good guy.
He was also demanding.
He didn't care if you were Pelé, the King of football,
he made the same demands of everyone.
A good thing about him
was that he wasn't a coward, he didn't fear anything.
It's just that sometimes he'd say things
that weren't necessary.
But he wanted to be the big man.
So personally,
if you were to ask me if he understood football,
then I'd say no, he didn't.
"João, what about if we do this, this, and this?"
And he'd be like, "But I'm the coach, I'm in charge."
And we'd reply, "Sure, let's chat."
Because he made a lot of decisions
that we could see weren't going to go right.
Pelé, Saldanha has shown us his plans,
and you're playing as a striker.
You don't enjoy playing there, do you?
No, it's not that I don't like playing there,
but in my current condition,
I can play deeper.
I've been playing deeper for 15 years,
and to ask me to change how I play from one moment to the next
just isn't possible.
There was something going on there.
Saldanha had his run-ins with Pelé during training.
They just didn't get along.
Given that João Saldanha liked showing off,
he gave an interview to a journalist
saying he was very concerned
because I'd undergone an eye exam,
and he thought I couldn't see properly.
João Saldanha was someone who was very particular and unpredictable.
I say that with affection because he was a very good friend of mine.
He also liked a good lie.
But I honestly can't explain why he made up the story
that Pelé was short-sighted and couldn't play.
Saldanha said he was blind.
He knew how to needle.
He said, "He's no good."
"He's blind. He can't see." Fuck!
Pelé was fuming.
"Pelé has issues with his eyesight."
That information came from the coach, João Saldanha.
How did you react to this?
I thought it was nasty,
but he clearly wanted to lash out at someone.
And it worked for him because it created a real storm.
You have the best player of all time
and you want to leave him on the bench?
"Pelé's not playing well, he's terrible…"
It doesn't matter, he's got to play!
So there were fights and arguments,
and a movement to oust Saldanha from the national team was born.
When the Brazilian FA offered me the job,
many people said they'd rather have someone else.
I call this the right to have an opinion.
I'm not a child
and I won't resign.
The government pulled some strings
not only to get Pelé on the pitch,
but we interfered in football.
The President and I have a lot in common.
We're both from the South, we support the same club,
and we like football.
But I don't choose his ministers, and the President doesn't pick my team.
That way we understand each other well.
When we watched that interview we were like,
"Wow! The shit's going to hit the fan!"
It was inevitable…
They sacked Saldanha.
I took over the reins with two months to go.
Pelé said that he was upset
because of what was coming out in the papers,
with Saldanha saying he was blind.
He wanted to answer his critics.
During training, Zagallo came up to me and said,
"Pelé, what's going on?"
"You're not getting stuck in, you're not yourself."
He was right.
I was concerned for myself.
I wanted to be in good physical shape.
In our first training session,
he put a hand on my shoulder
and said, "Zagallo,
don't mess me about."
I said to him,
"You're unique."
"I'll never leave you out."
"You can help me win the World Cup."
I can happily talk about Pelé's mood
as I was lucky enough to play with him in '58 and '62.
And now as coach,
I feel that Pelé is the same boy
that helped us win both those World Cups.
Pelé's form has dipped to a level
where you can mark him differently
because he's no longer the Pelé of old.
Oh my God!
We left Brazil totally discredited.
Brazilians didn't believe in that team
and thought we wouldn't get past the group stage.
That was when
he began enjoying himself again.
His intelligence, his confidence…
It was a spectacle.
Pelé is the author of the most incredible non-goals
in the history of football.
Today a lot of people score from the halfway line.
But he was the first to try it.
And in a World Cup.
He got something out of his system.
"The King is here. I'm the damn King."
They played well. Wow!
But that was just one game.
You need to keep winning in a World Cup.
I think England
are the big favorites.
England are the holders,
so they have to be favorites.
But Brazil will give it everything.
We knew it was going to be a difficult match against England.
We studied how they played and the way they defended.
Everyone said the same thing, whoever won that match
could go all the way.
Pelé controlled it.
He was surrounded by the entire defense, who blocked his way.
But I was coming up on the outside.
He'd already seen me a million years ago.
It was the biggest celebration of my entire career!
1-0 to Brazil.
It was spectacular and beautiful, like a game of chess.
And we won. Fuck, that was great.
We became even stronger.
1970 was a blessing.
The brotherhood in that team was impressive.
The messing around between the players, you didn't see that every day.
We were representing our country.
It wasn't just for us, but for all Brazilians.
Every victory was for the Brazilian people,
that's how we felt.
I covered the 1970 World Cup, and let me make it very clear
that I was against the dictatorship. I went there to cheer against my country.
We imagined that if Brazil won the World Cup
it would bolster the dictatorship, and none of us wanted that.
But when it comes to football, the heart rules the head.
You forget your principles once the ball starts rolling.
Once we were there, it was impossible not to get behind our team.
We were a game away from the World Cup Final.
But the whole of Brazil was in panic.
"Yes, we're doing well, Pelé's playing great…
but it's Uruguay."
"It's Uruguay, and we know how that always goes."
We can't forget that in the 1950 World Cup Final,
staged in Rio de Janeiro,
it was Uruguay who defeated favorites Brazil
to become world champions.
Football is unpredictable,
but could the same thing happen again 20 years later?
One of the things I did before going to bed was to pray.
I said, "Will tomorrow go well?"
These psychological aspects can really affect you.
You truly lose control. You can't explain it.
We were lucky to equalize and make it 1-1.
I made them aware that we'd been dreadful.
"You have to play the way we know,
which isn't what happened in the first half."
"I don't need to say anything else."
You begin to worry and things stop working.
But it's about telling yourself you have to do it.
I have my doubts as to whether there was only one Pelé on the pitch
because it seemed like there were three of him.
It was the return of Superman.
He transformed himself on the pitch,
and winning became non-negotiable for him.
I knew I was ready to play.
But there's always a doubt when playing sport.
Even the best in the world gets nervous from time to time, right?
Not from time to time, but all of the time.
When we were just about to arrive at the stadium,
and I looked out of the window
and saw all the fans with Brazil flags,
shouting, "Brazil! Pelé!",
it made me burst into tears.
I wanted to stop crying, but I couldn't.
I was the oldest player,
and I didn't want the other players to think, "Why is he crying?"
It was emotional, an outpouring.
"God, this is my last World Cup, help me in my last World Cup."
"I want your help in my last World Cup."
I'm sorry…
I just couldn't hold it in.
The stadium is completely full.
It's the biggest occasion in sport.
We are here and can only imagine your expectations back home in Brazil.
What will the score be?
I wasn't concerned about scoring or playing well against Italy.
I just wanted us to win.
I just needed to come out the other side.
He needed 1970.
He needed the header he scored against Italy.
He needed to punch the air.
Carlos Alberto crosses… Pelé slides in!
He was only a fraction of a second late!
It has nothing to do with fear,
but everything to do with responsibility.
You start putting this weight of responsibility on your shoulders,
and that's when it affects your emotions.
The ball comes to Jairzinho…
he finds Gérson, who moves it on to his left foot and shoots…
He was always encouraging us
and gave us this belief
that we could be great like he was.
Brazil score!
Jairzinho scores Brazil's third!
Brazil have the World Cup in their sights!
It was just relief.
I think the biggest gift you receive in victory isn't the trophy.
It's the relief.
He gave three cries in the dressing room that still give me goosebumps today.
“I didn’t die, I didn’t die, I didn’t die.”
What more could Pelé ask for?
Pelé was everything.
He was everything you could imagine.
It was the victory he wanted to leave as his legacy.
He accomplished what he set out to do,
and thank God he did it.
Pelé managed to solder his success with Brazil's success.
It was as if he was at war with a Brazilian flag in his hand.
His legend is our legend.
The 1970 World Cup was the best time of my life,
but it was more important for the country
because if Brazil had lost in '70, everything could have become worse.
The whole country could take a breath when we became champions.
1970 definitely did more for Brazil than it did for football.
Without a doubt.
Obviously, the dictatorship exploited that victory.
But the Brazilian people never attributed that World Cup win
to our murderous dictator, General Médici.
You only need to see how history remembers that win.
It doesn't belong to Médici.
It belongs to Pelé.
Thousands of white scarves bidding farewell to Pelé
on his last game for Brazil.
LONG LIVE THE KING
He's enchanted fans who say his name in every language.
Pelly, Peely, Pelé, Pelé.
Whatever the language, it means the greatest Brazilian player of all time.