It is from images like these that the movie was made Pele – the birth of a legend: Dondinho (father) is cleaning a public toilet, with the help of Dico (not Pele yet) – and suddenly, he exclaims:
– If you want to be a professional gamer, don’t be ashamed of who you are…
Equally emotional is the moment when Deco and Dondinho seem to be rehearsing in the back of the poor house with an orange – and Deco works with magic, magic that was already blooming on his feet, on his bare feet. It wasn’t until he was 12 years old that he put on cleats for the first time – and he soon led Ameriquinha to victory in the tournament in Bauru. He moved to Bauru AC – and tragedy almost robbed him of his immortality: he went swimming in the river with a friend, swimming badly, and was miraculously saved from drowning when he fearlessly dared the adventure.
He was sleepwalking, Mother, in a state of panic, discovered him many times wandering about the house, late at night–and other times, it was not fear, it was laughter–laughed at hearing it, while sleeping, leaving the bed in screaming and creeping weeping :
– Goal!
Bangu had toured Bauru and watched him play, and wanted to take him to Rio de Janeiro right away. It wasn’t because Donna Celeste had forbidden Dondinho to leave him. He tried to do the same later, when Valdemar de Brito (a friend of his father who was a star in the team), dazzled, lured him to Santos. He was 15 years old, and started earning five Cruzeros a month, plus room and board – his teammates didn’t call him Pele, they called him Gasoline because he always begged them to let him go to the pump and “put gas in his cars”…
Maracana and Belenensis
Also impressive in the film is the scene of his farewell to Bauru – in which Pele launches himself into the future. He was already there when, on June 19, 1957, he set foot on the Maracana for the first time and in the Maracana – and the first signs of divinity came from him. No, he wasn’t wearing a Santos shirt, he was wearing a Vasco da Gama shirt. To face the Belenenses in the Morumbi tournament (played as an air bridge between Sao Paulo and Rio) Vasco asked Santos for five players – Pele, who had just turned 16, scored three in a 6-1. Anyone who watched says the first hat was the classiest hat in his life …
– Was it the match against Belenenses, for Vasco, that opened the way for you to the World Cup?
– That was an important moment, of course. It has not yet been decided whether I will go to the world …
– … and thanks to this hat, it was soon thought that yes, that he would have to go …
The most beautiful goal of my life wasn’t that, the most important thing that could have been…
It is with this World Cup, the 1958 World Cup Pele – the birth of a legend You finish and understand why the movie is what it is – and why there is an agitated cry:
– You may only be 16 years old, but you have become a spokesperson for this great nation…
And Pele, by the way, became:
– …the player who changed the game, stepped up ‘Ginkgo’ and ‘beautiful football’, inspired a team, led them to believe they could…
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