1966 England World Cup , 25-year-old Pele boarded the World Cup for the third time. FIFA stipulates that the first to win 3 World Cup champions will permanently keep the World Cup trophy—— Rimit Gold Cup. But what I didn't expect was that this trip to the World Cup became a lingering dark moment for Pele.
At that time, the Brazil team played against Bulgaria in the first match. The 11 players who played had never trained together before. In that game, Pele and Garrincha each scored a free kick . Brazil finally won the first match 2-0 . But in that game, Pele was kicked and injured by Bulgarian defender Zhichev. In the second group match, Brazil team Hungary, Brazil team decided to hide Pele, but in the end they lost 0-3 to their opponents, which made Portugal the last team in the group a battle of life and death.
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In the final group match between Brazil and Portugal, the "butcher" defender Morais maliciously took down Pele twice. After Pele was injured, he had to be helped off the field. In that era, there were no rules for substitutions in football games. Brazil The team can only fight with 10 people, and finally lost 1-3 and the group was eliminated.
this matter touched FIFA, four years later 1970 Mexico World Cup football match for the first time to adopt substitution rules, Pele led the Brazilian team to win the cup for the third time. Since the 1998 World Cup in France, three substitute players can be replaced in each World Cup match. This year's Qatar World Cup has increased the number of substitute players for each match to five.
Some brilliant statistics of Pele
3 won the Hercules Cup three times
6 Brazil domestic champions 6 times
10 forever number 10 jersey
17 won his first World Cup at 17 years and 249 days this record is unprecedented
92 Pele in The number of hat-tricks performed in official and unofficial games
1283 The total number of goals in Pele’s career announced by the Brazilian Football Association is controversial but adopted by FIFA. FIFA recognizes Pele’s career in 1366 games and scored 1281 goals