The film "The Birth of a Legend" mainly talks about the road to fame of the football king Pele. From his childhood to 1958, he won the World Cup for Brazil. It is basically in line with the facts, inspirational and moving, and his eyes are a little moist.
Pele was born on October 23, 1940 in a poor family in the town of Tres Coracoes, Brazil. His father, Dondinho, was also a player, and his mother did not want him to play football.
When he was ten years old, he played football with his friends on the street, and also relied on leather shoes to subsidize the family. Later, he was discovered by the former Brazilian national team Valdemar de Brito and brought to the Baru Athletic youth team in São Paulo State. Too brought to the Santos team.
His teammates are actually very good, Zito, Pepe, Vasconcelos, Formiga and other stars are all his favorite objects. Because he was only fifteen years old and his body was relatively weak, he could only be transferred to the youth team. However, in a club game, he played for the first team for the first time and scored a goal.
Slowly, Pele was reused and became the main force of the team in less than a year, scoring 36 goals in the Sao Paulo State League, when he was only 16 years old.
Pele's outstanding, national team coach Fiora also saw in his eyes, and intends to let him participate in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. However, this caused the star Luizinho of the Corinthians to fail to participate in the World Cup, and the Brazilian Football Association organized a training ground. It was this training match that injured Pele, so he could not play in the first two games of the World Cup.
Brazil defeated Austria 3-0 in the first match of the World Cup Brazil.
Brazil and England tied 0-0 in the second group match. It was a fluke that England lost a number of important players due to the Munich air crash. British Airways Flight 609, carrying professional players, fans and reporters from the English Football League team Manchester United, made its third attempt on the snow-covered runway of Munich Airport in West Germany. The takeoff failed and crashed and 8 Manchester United players were killed.
In the third group match between Brazil and the Soviet Union, the coaches were out of the ordinary, replaced by Pele, and finally successfully defeated the Soviet Union 2:0 and successfully entered the quarter-finals with the group first.
In the quarter-finals, Brazil vs. Wales, the two sides were very anxious. Until the 70th minute, Didi dropped the ball into the penalty area. At this time, Bailey's inspiration flashed and he turned around and hit the goal with a beautiful pick-and-shoot motion and scored. The only goal in the game! Successfully entered the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, Brazil played against France with a score of 5:2. In the first minute of the opening, the Brazilian team Wawa opened the record and was then tied by the French star player Fontaine. In the first half, Didi made a long shot to overtake the score, and the Brazilian team temporarily took the lead.
In the second half, it was almost Pele's personal show. He staged a hat-trick in 23 minutes to lock the game in advance and help the Brazilian team advance to the final!
Needless to say in the finals, Brazil faced the host Sweden. Less than 5 minutes into the start, the Swedish captain opened the scoring, and then the Brazilian team Wawa scored 2 goals in a row, overtaking the score.
Not long after the second half, Pele broke out again, first with a skillful action to score a goal, then Zagallo scored another goal, Sweden not to be outdone, pulled back a goal, the score 4:2.
At this time, the victory and defeat seemed to have been divided, and towards the end of the game, Pele's header was the hope of completely knocking out the Swedish team, successfully helping the Brazilian team win the World Cup championship, and thus won the title of the champion.
The movie "The Birth of a Legend" did capture the highlights and details of these games. Unfortunately, as far as the movie itself is concerned, it is relatively regular, with a single narrative method and insufficient drama. It is also predictable every time the protagonist opens and hangs. Relatively speaking, Bailey's father played well. (Mr. Hairtail made a special relationship diagram of the characters in the movie, as follows)
After the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, Pele truly began his legendary life. He participated in four World Cups and won three World Cup titles. He played 1,366 games in his career and scored 1,283 goals. He retired in 1977 and officially ended his career at the age of 37.
Pele's contribution to football naturally does not need to be said, mainly in the following aspects:
1. His playing method is very primitive, just like the Renjia playing method mentioned in the film, which has affected a generation of players;
2. Win glory for Brazil and plant seeds. In the future, Brazil will also give birth to famous players such as Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Kaka, etc.
3. Promote football, improve football rules and the World Cup system
If you cooperate with the final highlights of the film, even pseudo-fans can have a preliminary understanding of Pele and are interested in learning more about him.
Interestingly, Bailey himself made a cameo appearance in the movie, and the protagonist also apologized to him.
Previously, Pele lost the title of Crow's Mouth because of his prediction of the team. Now he dare not make random predictions at this World Cup in Russia, because the teams he favored have had a miserable ending.
This is the story of Pele.
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