Watched a clip of it, icl certi team goal they destroyed Italy’s defence but pele’s assist was nothing special to call it the best in history u must be sniffing that coke
Yes it is. When considering the stage, and it being the defining moment of that WC tournament by arguably the greatest international football team in history, and as an ideal of what the sport can be, the nonchalance and impudence of that pass into space for Carlos Alberto to put the exclamation point of their mastery of the game, is football at it highest point.
Pele is the greatest of all time in my opinion. The older generation of parents and grandparents' know and appreciate Pelé greatness. It's sometimes sad to see Messi fans try to belittle his greatest.
Pelé was welcomed in heaven by Best, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Maradona, Eusébio, Cruyff and Yashin. He's in a better place now. As a 28 year old, I never saw him play live, but there's no denying he was the most influential player EVER in the game. One of the first real true genius. Rest in peace, Rei.
He played before my time but still. Watching the old clips of Pele making football an art at the world cup. That made me fall in love in this beautiful sport and pick up a ball myself as a small child. Can't exactly say I had a nearly as impressive career with playing in the 3 tier of Norwegian fottball as a highlight. 😆 But it shows that Pele's influence is global, even decades after he hang up his boots. Rest in piece Pele. May he enjoy playing in Heaven FC with Maradona, Cruyff, Puskás, Di Stefano and all the other legends of the old. ✌
In the 1958 world cup, Pele was 17 yrs old and playing in a team that was dominating. His goals came in the sf and final when Brazil was winning comfortably and the demoralised opposition didnt want to mark a 17 yr old. But what happened in the next 12 years is grossly misunderstood. Against popular belief, Pele actually didnt have much of an impact on international football. He got injured in the first game in 1962 world cup and didnt play the rest of the games. Brazil won the world cup without him, just goes to show that that Brazilian team was special and Pele just benefited from playing alongside great players. Then in 1966 world cup, Brazil got eliminated at the group stage. Yes the great Pele couldnt even get his national team to clear the group stage. After 1966, Pele dejected at not being able to replicate his (fortuitous) heroics of 1958 decided to retire. Then in 1970, when Pele saw that Brazil had again managed to build a great team consisting of the Jairzinho, Tostao, Rivelino and Gerson, he jumped at the opportunity and joined the national team again. In 1970, he scored goals against relatively weaker teams like Romania and Czech and then didnt do anything in the crucial KO matches. People unnecessarily hyped his every move like the famous rounding the keeper in the sf where instead of scoring an easy goal he tried to outsmart the keeper and ended up missing an open goal. It was the other attacking players mentioned abovewho dragged Brazil to the final. And then in the final like his protegee Ronaldo, he scored an easy tapin from 2 yards (notice how the defender marking him didnt even jump). Brazil won that game 4-1, I urge you to watch the other goals in that match, specially the screamer from outside the box and you'll realize how Pele again hogged the limelight for nothing (just like Ronaldo would RM while Ramos, Bale scored crucial, classier goals). So to summarize, Pele got lucky in the 1958 world cup, didnt do anything for the next 12 years (supposedly his prime) and then played in a great Brazilian team in 1970 and hogged the limelight. If he is regarded as the GOAT by some for these world cup wins, people need to check their facts.
Isaac Newton once said “if I can see further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants.” The metaphor eludes to the great philosophers who came before him who’s work helped elevate Newton’s own findings. Pele is the embodiment of that Quote who has played the game since, truly a Titan of the game, THE Titan of OUR game. Rest in peace Icon, you will never be forgotten.
I'm from Brazil and I'm feeling like shit after the news of him passing... This video, seeing him recongnized across the world, it brings tears to my eyes... He was the greatest of all! The King! Thanks for this video!
I'm from the U.S. and Pele retired when I was only two years old, and I feel the same way. I learned who he was when I was six or seven years old, and have been in awe of him ever since. Even when he was only a teenager, he made his opponents look like children by comparison. Rest in peace.
I think what made Pelé so beloved was that he was a *GREAT* ambassador for association football as a whole. In just about the entire world, the very name _Pelé_ would have immediate name recognition. Rest in peace.
Pele was a gift to the footballing world! ⚽️ 🏆 He’s hung his boots up for the last time. Rest up with the other legends now! 🙏 💐 😢 Thank you for everything you’ve done!
Thank you Alfie. The world underrates Pele, no unfair. For me he is the goat of football. He is the God of football. What he has done for the sport, can never be replicated. For God sakes, he scored 6 goals in a world cup as a 17 year old, and has won 3 world cups, what are we debating about? 😅
Greatest of all time, period. He changed football for ever, in professionalism, game quality, game rules and everything. The foundations of football professionalism built by him, key to modern era. Not only he was cooked by many kicks, but he still was a complete character injury after injury. Not a single player in moderns era would survive Pele’s era. And probably Pelé would be top 3 in the world with all the technology we have today. Rest in peace O’rei
Watching the clips of him makes you realize how free he must've felt on the pitch, regardless of how much is true or isn't if it comes to his career, he'll always be the symbol of freedom and fun in football, alongside ronaldinho he was the reason why I started playing and got invested in the sport. Football just lost it's greatest treasure Rest easy O Rei
@@Josh-pj7tq if it matters so much for you, look up the controversies surrounding his career yourself, to me it doesn't because despite all that he remains a hero to the sport.
I am extremely so shocked and sad to hear this news and Rest In Peace to the legendary Brazilian footballer Pele sir!!!Rest In Peace and we will and must never ever miss you daily and ever in this world and other planets!!!RIP Pele sir!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Great video. Really showcases just how much of a pioneer Pele was for the modern game. He is truly the undisputed GOAT - no one else has matched his achievements on the pitch or showed the world just how beautiful the game can be. IMO he would destroy teams single-handedly if he was playing today and would most likely have prevented Messi or Ronaldo from winning a single Balon D'Or
like Muhammad Ali, it doesn't really matter if you think hes the best ever because he is undisputably the GREATEST ever. Nobody will ever have the same kind of impact on the game as him
This video perfectly sums up exactly why I think Pele is the greatest of all time. Often in the debate on greatest footballers ever, a lot of people actually make a lot of arguments better suited to who is the BEST footballer of all time and I get rather annoyed by that. They tend to focus on stats or trophy cabinets, and while there is a genuine place for those things, for me, the best will always be better eventually. As scary as that sentence sounds given how brilliant the likes of Messi and Ronaldo are now, they will be bettered at some point. Maybe not in the next 10 years or even the next 100, but it will happen at some point. So when it comes to true greatness, we need a different yard stick to go by. To demonstrate this let me change to a different sport to really illustrate this better. Question: Who is the greatest high jumper of all time? As in who is the most significant/most important high jumper ever? If you answer that question with anyone other than Dick Fosbury, I reserve the right to think you don't know what you're talking about. He literally reinvented the sport by coming up with the Fosbury Flop. Ever since then, pretty much everyone adopted that technique because of how revolutionary it was. Now, is Dick Fosbury the best high jumper ever? Almost certainly not. He wasn't even the best in his day let alone by today's standards. Once other people worked out how to do the Fosbury Flop, they were better at it than him. He won the Olympics once purely on the fact that he had a much better technique than anyone had even thought of. And this for me is what greatness really boils down to. Not just what you do during your career in the sport itself, but in how doing it that way impact the sport as a whole off the pitch for generations to come. That's why I'm always very very pleased to see when this channel shows love for the greatest goalkeeper of all time, Lev Yashin. Like Dick Fosbury, his revolutionised football. He practically invented the sweeper keeper role and took charge of his back line of defenders unlike anyone else. That exactly how everyone does goalkeeping now. Defenders have to change how they played to accommodate for new styles of keepers. Strikers and attacking forwards and managers are forced to have to rethink how to play this game because of people like Lev Yashin. There are extremely few players of any sport anywhere that can claim to have literally changed the sport they play because they were that good. (n.b. personally I think it would be difficult to justify Lev Yashin as the greatest footballer ever since he didn't score goals and that's what wins games, but nevertheless, in the greatest ever discussion I think it's always a name that has to come up at least for a bit, and I always die a little bit inside when people fail to do so.) It's similar to why I'll always think that George Best is one of the best ever. He was told he was the best player in the world by Pele himself and was the influence on Maradonna growing up, and that itself leads to countless number of youngsters wanting to play like that. And I suspect in the following years after Messi and Ronaldo retire we're gonna see the impact of their influence so massively it's gonna weird to go back and look at old footage of football before them. Similar to when you look at football footage from before 1954. I always get saddened by the idea that the Hungarian side of 1954 didn't win that world cup over Germany when they were the ones that first started to play what we might consider "modern/total" football and I have a huge amount of respect for that. So when you look at Pele, who was better than everyone else at the time, won the biggest trophies you could ever win multiple times, and actually changed how people saw the game of football for the all generations that followed, all before anyone else (at least in terms of what we consider modern football), I think he will be seen as the greatest ever, or at the very least the most significant.
The true & forever G.O.A.T. Rest in Peace Pelé. 3x World Cup winner, powerful in any position, revolutionized the game, & changed the world of sports forever. 👑
I’ve seen that video you’re talking about. Pele did it first for real. I think Messi might have taken his game a little further by winning again and again. However, Pele’s influence on making the sport be seen as an art is pretty synonymous with the heights he led Brazil too. The game hasn’t change that much in its core essence, talent never dies.
Bear in mind, Pele wasn't eligible to win the Ballon D'or during his career. There was no denying that Pele was the greatest player in the world from the time he was 17 til the time he was 29.
We are still debating and comparing what some contemporary player did with Pele who was active 50 years ago. I've read some Wikipedia recently and some people have broken some record of late, surpassing who? Pele! Remember, football and the world cup has been in existence before Pele was born. As he himself said, there will be many boxers but only one Muhammad Ali, many classical music composers but one Beethoven, etc. So long, King; you will always be in our hearts
What a beautiful tribute to the beautiful game's most iconic exponent ! I cannot but admire the way it manages to be factually accurate and poignant at the same time ! Obrigado, Alfie !
Greatest Player being given the best tribute video ever by the greatest football/soccer RUclipsr. Thank you, HITC Sevens and Thank you so very much Pele up in heaven.
I grew up in the sixties. as a kid i loved to play foorball, often playing two or three hours after school each day and nine or ten hours on Saturdays and Sundays. i had no interest in watching it, thinkig it a boring game to watch, when it was the world cup final in 1966 i went out and played football with some mates whilst everyone else watched. In 1970 I had broken a toe and could not play. I ended up watching, the Brazillian team and in particular Pele, showed me that it is a beautiful game. he was the beatin heart, soaring soul, and calculating brain of that team. and was as you so rightly say past his best. Since then i watch as much football as i can and Brazil at the world cup is always a highlight of the year to me. we can all thank pele for the globalization and beautification of our beloved game. I am a tough no nonsense type of bloke, but of course I have tears in my eyes as i write this. For me there is no discussion he is the GOAT. Thanks Alfie and keep up the good work
He was the best of all time, winning his 1ST. world cup at .!7. making him the youngest player to win a WC he was before my time but looking at him tells you how magnificent he was R.I.P Pele the truly GOAT
As an 11 year old in 1966 I like the rest of the nation was ecstatic when England won the World Cup, but felt we were deprived of something when Pele was brutally kicked out of the tournament (at my beloved Goodison, where I had great pleasure in watching Alan Ball light up the stadium) by Bulgaria and Portugal (and doubly disappointed that another icon, Eusebio, seemed content to witness the crimes of his team-mates. Four years later though England went out after surrendering a 2-0 advantage to West Germany, it was more than compensated for by Pele and the whole Brazil team’s exhilarating performances. Thanks for your tribute Alfie.
I think we all owned a debt with Pele. He shaped what football actually us. Thanked to Pele, football is the King of sport and will remember him, forever.
Nice job remembering how Brazil's championships back in the 1960s were the absolute pinnacle of football ... NOT EUROPE. People often say "Pelé never played in Europe, Pelé played against farmers, weak opposition" ... so thank you for remembering that EVERY SINGLE PLAYER on those 4 WC rosters, from 1958 to 1970, played in Brazil. Three world cups out of 4 (should have been 4 out of 4 if 1966's WC wasn't plagued by brutal tackling) , and all of those champions were playing here. Rivellino, Gerson, Jairzinho, Tostao, Vava, Amarildo, Nilton Santos, Djalma Santos, GARRINCHA, Clodoaldo, Carlos Aberto, Zagallo ... ALL of those legends played in Brazil. And several of them in the Sao Paulo state championship. It is absolutely NO exaggeration to say that the Paulista championship in the 1960s, with Pelé's Santos, Rivellino's Corinthians, Ademir da Guia's Palmeiras, and Canhoteiro's Sao Paulo, that championship was WAY harder and more filled with talent than what La Liga is TODAY. And Pelé was the absolute ruler and KING of every single BR championship played. Santos by the way only won two Libertadores titles (followed by the 2 Intercontinental Titles) because the Libertadores Cup back then was also plagued with murderous tackling and slimy refereeing favouring ARG and URU clubs. Santos preferred to tour around the world to make more money (decided not to play the 1966 Libertadores). So ... yeah ... the "Pelé didn't play in Europe" argument is just nonsense. Just as Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona or Ronaldinho, Pelé played against the best in the world of his time, and ruled them all.
One thing everyone is so consumed by in considering the greatest of all time is how many awards and trophies a player has won. Not taking into account there are more Cup competitions these days than ever before. It's also coming down to stats and numbers too much and they are all well and good until you take into account they are often padded out by the fact that there are more matches played and had no significance on the outcome of the match because your team was already several goals up. Even 30 years ago no one really cared about any two stats other than how many goals a player scored and how few goals a keeper conceded. Now you get meaningless running stats that look impressive until you realise that player did nothing to impact the game. Pele never bragged about any of that while playing or after and unlike other he didn't just changed the way people played in one way but many ways.
You gave short shrift one of Pele’s accomplishments - he popularized soccer in North America. I get that non-North Americans are often very contemptuous of North America in general and soccer specifically but he made a deeply unpopular sport into a top 5 sport to about 425million people. Plus he inadvertently helped create the whole “Retirement League” trope.
Once again bro, another masterpiece! I personally think he is the greatest of all time playing the beautiful game and top 5 sportsmen as well! RIP Pele
The most beautiful exponent of the most beautiful game. Immortal in the memories of all lovers of football, he will never truely be dead as long as there is one boy or girl, somewhere in the world, still willing to juggle a ball alone for hours every day or play the game with flair, passion, skill, intelligence and athleticism. Thanks for the memories and inspiration.
My Grandpa was a huge fan of pelé. He was the same age , sadly he left us way too early. But I share his love for the beautiful game , and so I share the admiration for Pelé. He was the greatest of all time, for me that is. We knew he didn't have long , but loosing him still hurts. Rest in Peace.
Lots will be said about Pele in the coming days and weeks, but I don't think anyone will have presented a retrospective as comprehensive and as human as this. I hope you get some kip.
To those of you citing Messi alongside Pelé as a potential GOAT: Picture Messi in your head. Now add CR7's physique, jumping and heading capabilities. But wait: you're still lacking something. Add onto this golem of yours, Kevin de Bruyne's vision and passing. Now we can talk about who would be better. Edit: I agree Messi would be the greatest of the century. But of ALL TIME? Sorry, but Pelé is still the one and only true goAT.
I had kept up with the news about pele and had emotionally prepared in case of the devastating news of his death. But when heard them, I still shed a tear. There's football before pele and after. Almost as if an entire different sport altogether. If there was ever a face of the sport that is pele. The sheer influence he still has decades after his retirement is a testament of that. R.I.P O Rei 💐👑
I had the good fortune to see Pele play twice in 1977. I was living in Hawaii then. The first match was a friendly with the Japanese national team. Pele was with the NY Cosmos in the old NASL. They thrashed them 6-1 and Pele scored three goals. The second time was NY Cosmos at The Hawaiians. The Cosmos won 2-1 and he didn't score anything. I remember reading about him first in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was common knowledge that he was special. I live in the greater San Francisco area now and we have lots of Latin American immigrants in the area. I love watching their eyes light up when I tell them that I got to see him in person twice.
Very good tribute to the King. He was also instrumental in civil rights movement as their victory in 58 helped usher in that campaign for racial equality. Then he also stopped a civil War in Nigeria.
Yeah i never got to watch him play (just like many other greats). But i know that when im 50 or 60 years old, there will be ppl who say they never watched messi or ronaldo play and therefore they cant place them at the top. Which is fair enough. But those of us who got to witness these two (and other great players) will say that they were the best and will die on that hill just like those before us will never relent on pele or maradona (or someone else) being the best. I will never put him on top just cuz he was way before my time but those who suggest he dsnt even belong r just ignorant. I just hope that us fans who all share this love for football can simply enjoy the greats while they r around and not disrespect those who came before or those who r yet to come. Im not some pele fan but regardless, thank u for all u did for the game of football, rest easy king.
"at 16 he scored 41 goals in 38 games" I literally laughed out loud. Pele was just ridiculous! Pure genius!
1:07 pele fue más que todos juntos los demás me cago de risas
His assist to Carlos Alberto in the 1970 WC final is one of the most brilliant passes in the game's history.
It was brilliant. But let's not get too emotional and say that it was one of the best in history.
Watched a clip of it, icl certi team goal they destroyed Italy’s defence but pele’s assist was nothing special to call it the best in history u must be sniffing that coke
Yes it is. When considering the stage, and it being the defining moment of that WC tournament by arguably the greatest international football team in history, and as an ideal of what the sport can be, the nonchalance and impudence of that pass into space for Carlos Alberto to put the exclamation point of their mastery of the game, is football at it highest point.
@@bolder2009 the defining moment was the dummy he did on Uruguay
@@horebandemariam9989 Those two moments defined that world cup. Well to be exact the completion of that team goal and the dummy in the semi.
Pele is the greatest of all time in my opinion. The older generation of parents and grandparents' know and appreciate
Pelé greatness.
It's sometimes sad to see Messi fans try to belittle his greatest.
Pelé was welcomed in heaven by Best, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Maradona, Eusébio, Cruyff and Yashin. He's in a better place now.
As a 28 year old, I never saw him play live, but there's no denying he was the most influential player EVER in the game. One of the first real true genius. Rest in peace, Rei.
He played before my time but still. Watching the old clips of Pele making football an art at the world cup. That made me fall in love in this beautiful sport and pick up a ball myself as a small child. Can't exactly say I had a nearly as impressive career with playing in the 3 tier of Norwegian fottball as a highlight. 😆
But it shows that Pele's influence is global, even decades after he hang up his boots. Rest in piece Pele. May he enjoy playing in Heaven FC with Maradona, Cruyff, Puskás, Di Stefano and all the other legends of the old. ✌
Peace, not "piece"
Sorry about that! 🤦♂️🥴
@@JinZanmato both are real. RIP Pelé 🇧🇷
Even Norwegian 3rd Tier is fucking solid. Well done mate
3rd tier is more than 80% of any players can dream of.
In the 1958 world cup, Pele was 17 yrs old and playing in a team that was dominating. His goals came in the sf and final when Brazil was winning comfortably and the demoralised opposition didnt want to mark a 17 yr old. But what happened in the next 12 years is grossly misunderstood. Against popular belief, Pele actually didnt have much of an impact on international football. He got injured in the first game in 1962 world cup and didnt play the rest of the games. Brazil won the world cup without him, just goes to show that that Brazilian team was special and Pele just benefited from playing alongside great players. Then in 1966 world cup, Brazil got eliminated at the group stage. Yes the great Pele couldnt even get his national team to clear the group stage. After 1966, Pele dejected at not being able to replicate his (fortuitous) heroics of 1958 decided to retire. Then in 1970, when Pele saw that Brazil had again managed to build a great team consisting of the Jairzinho, Tostao, Rivelino and Gerson, he jumped at the opportunity and joined the national team again. In 1970, he scored goals against relatively weaker teams like Romania and Czech and then didnt do anything in the crucial KO matches. People unnecessarily hyped his every move like the famous rounding the keeper in the sf where instead of scoring an easy goal he tried to outsmart the keeper and ended up missing an open goal. It was the other attacking players mentioned abovewho dragged Brazil to the final. And then in the final like his protegee Ronaldo, he scored an easy tapin from 2 yards (notice how the defender marking him didnt even jump). Brazil won that game 4-1, I urge you to watch the other goals in that match, specially the screamer from outside the box and you'll realize how Pele again hogged the limelight for nothing (just like Ronaldo would RM while Ramos, Bale scored crucial, classier goals). So to summarize, Pele got lucky in the 1958 world cup, didnt do anything for the next 12 years (supposedly his prime) and then played in a great Brazilian team in 1970 and hogged the limelight. If he is regarded as the GOAT by some for these world cup wins, people need to check their facts.
Isaac Newton once said “if I can see further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants.” The metaphor eludes to the great philosophers who came before him who’s work helped elevate Newton’s own findings. Pele is the embodiment of that Quote who has played the game since, truly a Titan of the game, THE Titan of OUR game. Rest in peace Icon, you will never be forgotten.
this comment lowkey crazy af
Bernard of Chartres said it before Newton only he had Dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants
Actually Newton said this as a dig it one of his great rivals Robert Hooke, who was very short and had a hunchback.
Knobhead
Spot on. The stuff he did with type of ball, pitches, boots, where it was a lot more difficult to do than it is today.
I'm from Brazil and I'm feeling like shit after the news of him passing... This video, seeing him recongnized across the world, it brings tears to my eyes... He was the greatest of all! The King! Thanks for this video!
I'm from the U.S. and Pele retired when I was only two years old, and I feel the same way. I learned who he was when I was six or seven years old, and have been in awe of him ever since. Even when he was only a teenager, he made his opponents look like children by comparison. Rest in peace.
What a legend! His legacy will stay with us forever
But enough about Alfie, Pele was great as well.
@@DomenBremecXCVI 😂
I think what made Pelé so beloved was that he was a *GREAT* ambassador for association football as a whole. In just about the entire world, the very name _Pelé_ would have immediate name recognition. Rest in peace.
I feel sorry for Alfie having to do a video like this when sleep deprived. What dedication! And Pele just proves he is the ‘GOAT’ no questions asked!
Pele was a gift to the footballing world! ⚽️ 🏆
He’s hung his boots up for the last time.
Rest up with the other legends now!
🙏 💐 😢
Thank you for everything you’ve done!
Thank you Alfie. The world underrates Pele, no unfair. For me he is the goat of football. He is the God of football. What he has done for the sport, can never be replicated.
For God sakes, he scored 6 goals in a world cup as a 17 year old, and has won 3 world cups, what are we debating about? 😅
Greatest of all time, period. He changed football for ever, in professionalism, game quality, game rules and everything. The foundations of football professionalism built by him, key to modern era. Not only he was cooked by many kicks, but he still was a complete character injury after injury. Not a single player in moderns era would survive Pele’s era. And probably Pelé would be top 3 in the world with all the technology we have today. Rest in peace O’rei
Ahhh pele
P:powerful
E:everyone is supportive with him
L:loved by everyone
E:easy to notice all the wins
Watching the clips of him makes you realize how free he must've felt on the pitch, regardless of how much is true or isn't if it comes to his career, he'll always be the symbol of freedom and fun in football, alongside ronaldinho he was the reason why I started playing and got invested in the sport.
Football just lost it's greatest treasure
Rest easy O Rei
How much what isn't true?
@@Josh-pj7tq if it matters so much for you, look up the controversies surrounding his career yourself, to me it doesn't because despite all that he remains a hero to the sport.
@@km-js7ws no conterovisies ecxist
I am extremely so shocked and sad to hear this news and Rest In Peace to the legendary Brazilian footballer Pele sir!!!Rest In Peace and we will and must never ever miss you daily and ever in this world and other planets!!!RIP Pele sir!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Brasil national team have not lost a single game while Pelé and Garrincha played together. Garrincha was a marvel too.
He is only underrated in Europe.Here in Brazil he is considered our 2nd best player ever before Zico,Romário,Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.
Alfie, thank you for your tireless efforts and being so consistent and timely with your uploads! You really are a true servant of the game!
So true, but it also sounds so wrong considering this video's upload date 😂
@@shubhamsinghstar123 how so?
@@archipiratta nvm. I thought he created this video beforehand, but that wasn't the case. My bad.
Great video as ever tho.
Great video. Really showcases just how much of a pioneer Pele was for the modern game. He is truly the undisputed GOAT - no one else has matched his achievements on the pitch or showed the world just how beautiful the game can be. IMO he would destroy teams single-handedly if he was playing today and would most likely have prevented Messi or Ronaldo from winning a single Balon D'Or
Even if you weren’t alive when Pele played, you still know all about his legacy and how good he was, unlike many others from that era. RIP King Pele
No current player can touch this mans greatness he was was beyond great a real star.
like Muhammad Ali, it doesn't really matter if you think hes the best ever because he is undisputably the GREATEST ever. Nobody will ever have the same kind of impact on the game as him
Seeing schopenhauer feature on HITC sevens feels like i've died and gone to heaven. Lovely stuff.
I met Pele in Indochin New York City and he invited me and my wife to join his party! We did for a bit and I met the nicest most humble human ever!
His highlights are truly awe-inspiring. Ahead of his time is a HUGE understatement.
Wonderful representation of the greatest complete footballer-skill and artistry he was RIP Pele.
Pele in my opinion is the greatest footballer that has ever graced the beautiful game and always will be.
This video perfectly sums up exactly why I think Pele is the greatest of all time.
Often in the debate on greatest footballers ever, a lot of people actually make a lot of arguments better suited to who is the BEST footballer of all time and I get rather annoyed by that. They tend to focus on stats or trophy cabinets, and while there is a genuine place for those things, for me, the best will always be better eventually. As scary as that sentence sounds given how brilliant the likes of Messi and Ronaldo are now, they will be bettered at some point. Maybe not in the next 10 years or even the next 100, but it will happen at some point.
So when it comes to true greatness, we need a different yard stick to go by. To demonstrate this let me change to a different sport to really illustrate this better.
Question: Who is the greatest high jumper of all time? As in who is the most significant/most important high jumper ever?
If you answer that question with anyone other than Dick Fosbury, I reserve the right to think you don't know what you're talking about. He literally reinvented the sport by coming up with the Fosbury Flop. Ever since then, pretty much everyone adopted that technique because of how revolutionary it was.
Now, is Dick Fosbury the best high jumper ever? Almost certainly not. He wasn't even the best in his day let alone by today's standards. Once other people worked out how to do the Fosbury Flop, they were better at it than him. He won the Olympics once purely on the fact that he had a much better technique than anyone had even thought of.
And this for me is what greatness really boils down to. Not just what you do during your career in the sport itself, but in how doing it that way impact the sport as a whole off the pitch for generations to come.
That's why I'm always very very pleased to see when this channel shows love for the greatest goalkeeper of all time, Lev Yashin. Like Dick Fosbury, his revolutionised football. He practically invented the sweeper keeper role and took charge of his back line of defenders unlike anyone else. That exactly how everyone does goalkeeping now. Defenders have to change how they played to accommodate for new styles of keepers. Strikers and attacking forwards and managers are forced to have to rethink how to play this game because of people like Lev Yashin. There are extremely few players of any sport anywhere that can claim to have literally changed the sport they play because they were that good. (n.b. personally I think it would be difficult to justify Lev Yashin as the greatest footballer ever since he didn't score goals and that's what wins games, but nevertheless, in the greatest ever discussion I think it's always a name that has to come up at least for a bit, and I always die a little bit inside when people fail to do so.)
It's similar to why I'll always think that George Best is one of the best ever. He was told he was the best player in the world by Pele himself and was the influence on Maradonna growing up, and that itself leads to countless number of youngsters wanting to play like that. And I suspect in the following years after Messi and Ronaldo retire we're gonna see the impact of their influence so massively it's gonna weird to go back and look at old footage of football before them. Similar to when you look at football footage from before 1954. I always get saddened by the idea that the Hungarian side of 1954 didn't win that world cup over Germany when they were the ones that first started to play what we might consider "modern/total" football and I have a huge amount of respect for that.
So when you look at Pele, who was better than everyone else at the time, won the biggest trophies you could ever win multiple times, and actually changed how people saw the game of football for the all generations that followed, all before anyone else (at least in terms of what we consider modern football), I think he will be seen as the greatest ever, or at the very least the most significant.
Pele had 3 Goals & 3 Assists in 2 World Cup Finals. World Cup Goat
Plus in 1958 & 1970, Brazil won the finals by 3 goals
A brilliant tribute! ❤️
RIP legend! 🙏
RIP Pele the best to ever kick a ball a true blessing
The true & forever G.O.A.T. Rest in Peace Pelé. 3x World Cup winner, powerful in any position, revolutionized the game, & changed the world of sports forever. 👑
I’ve seen that video you’re talking about. Pele did it first for real. I think Messi might have taken his game a little further by winning again and again. However, Pele’s influence on making the sport be seen as an art is pretty synonymous with the heights he led Brazil too.
The game hasn’t change that much in its core essence, talent never dies.
Bear in mind, Pele wasn't eligible to win the Ballon D'or during his career. There was no denying that Pele was the greatest player in the world from the time he was 17 til the time he was 29.
As a young man your information is accurate and non biased long live the memories of the king Pele
My middle name is Pele. Grew up admiring such a legend. RIP
We are still debating and comparing what some contemporary player did with Pele who was active 50 years ago. I've read some Wikipedia recently and some people have broken some record of late, surpassing who? Pele! Remember, football and the world cup has been in existence before Pele was born. As he himself said, there will be many boxers but only one Muhammad Ali, many classical music composers but one Beethoven, etc. So long, King; you will always be in our hearts
What a beautiful tribute to the beautiful game's most iconic exponent ! I cannot but admire the way it manages to be factually accurate and poignant at the same time ! Obrigado, Alfie !
Football is eternal. Pelé is football.
Rest in Peace Legend!
💚💚💚
Appreciate your hard work & your grandad’s taste in football.
Pele is Eternal ✍🏾🏅
Greatest Player being given the best tribute video ever by the greatest football/soccer RUclipsr. Thank you, HITC Sevens and Thank you so very much Pele up in heaven.
RIP Pele, a legendary figure who will never be forgotten.
R.I.P Pele your influence on the game will never be forgotten
I grew up in the sixties. as a kid i loved to play foorball, often playing two or three hours after school each day and nine or ten hours on Saturdays and Sundays. i had no interest in watching it, thinkig it a boring game to watch, when it was the world cup final in 1966 i went out and played football with some mates whilst everyone else watched. In 1970 I had broken a toe and could not play. I ended up watching, the Brazillian team and in particular Pele, showed me that it is a beautiful game. he was the beatin heart, soaring soul, and calculating brain of that team. and was as you so rightly say past his best. Since then i watch as much football as i can and Brazil at the world cup is always a highlight of the year to me. we can all thank pele for the globalization and beautification of our beloved game. I am a tough no nonsense type of bloke, but of course I have tears in my eyes as i write this. For me there is no discussion he is the GOAT. Thanks Alfie and keep up the good work
The OG 🐐
The first true global superstar in football, arguably in all of sport 🔥
Can’t touch this
Everything you see footballs doing now
Pele did it first
The greatest of all time 🙌♥️
He gave voice to young black footballers
He was the best of all time, winning his 1ST. world cup at .!7. making him the youngest player to win a WC he was before my time but looking at him tells you how magnificent he was R.I.P Pele the truly GOAT
Legend goat rip.
Do a 11 world cup winning team of this century
As an 11 year old in 1966 I like the rest of the nation was ecstatic when England won the World Cup, but felt we were deprived of something when Pele was brutally kicked out of the tournament (at my beloved Goodison, where I had great pleasure in watching Alan Ball light up the stadium) by Bulgaria and Portugal (and doubly disappointed that another icon, Eusebio, seemed content to witness the crimes of his team-mates. Four years later though England went out after surrendering a 2-0 advantage to West Germany, it was more than compensated for by Pele and the whole Brazil team’s exhilarating performances.
Thanks for your tribute Alfie.
I think we all owned a debt with Pele. He shaped what football actually us. Thanked to Pele, football is the King of sport and will remember him, forever.
Rest in peace the greatest player of all time🇧🇷👑🐐
rip pele he is going to join maradona
Behind maradona, messi, Suarez, gerrard, de bruyne, Bernardo silva, David silva, Thierry Henry, kaka, Ronaldinho, zidane, zola, aguero, cristiano ronaldo etc etc
@@Roundholesinsquarepegs you named players that dont even belong in the top 20 of their position
@@Roundholesinsquarepegs my guy said Gerrard and Silva 😂😂😂😂
@@Dr.Yakub22 how old are you? Gerrard and Kaka could have walked into any team in the world for at least 11/12 years of their 15 yr or so careers
He may no longer be alive but his legacy lives on RIP
Nice job remembering how Brazil's championships back in the 1960s were the absolute pinnacle of football ... NOT EUROPE.
People often say "Pelé never played in Europe, Pelé played against farmers, weak opposition" ... so thank you for remembering that EVERY SINGLE PLAYER on those 4 WC rosters, from 1958 to 1970, played in Brazil. Three world cups out of 4 (should have been 4 out of 4 if 1966's WC wasn't plagued by brutal tackling) , and all of those champions were playing here. Rivellino, Gerson, Jairzinho, Tostao, Vava, Amarildo, Nilton Santos, Djalma Santos, GARRINCHA, Clodoaldo, Carlos Aberto, Zagallo ... ALL of those legends played in Brazil. And several of them in the Sao Paulo state championship. It is absolutely NO exaggeration to say that the Paulista championship in the 1960s, with Pelé's Santos, Rivellino's Corinthians, Ademir da Guia's Palmeiras, and Canhoteiro's Sao Paulo, that championship was WAY harder and more filled with talent than what La Liga is TODAY. And Pelé was the absolute ruler and KING of every single BR championship played. Santos by the way only won two Libertadores titles (followed by the 2 Intercontinental Titles) because the Libertadores Cup back then was also plagued with murderous tackling and slimy refereeing favouring ARG and URU clubs. Santos preferred to tour around the world to make more money (decided not to play the 1966 Libertadores).
So ... yeah ... the "Pelé didn't play in Europe" argument is just nonsense. Just as Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona or Ronaldinho, Pelé played against the best in the world of his time, and ruled them all.
The idea of farmers league is stupid .Without foreign players (even in the 50s and 60s) Spanish and Italian leagues would be not all different.
One thing everyone is so consumed by in considering the greatest of all time is how many awards and trophies a player has won. Not taking into account there are more Cup competitions these days than ever before. It's also coming down to stats and numbers too much and they are all well and good until you take into account they are often padded out by the fact that there are more matches played and had no significance on the outcome of the match because your team was already several goals up. Even 30 years ago no one really cared about any two stats other than how many goals a player scored and how few goals a keeper conceded. Now you get meaningless running stats that look impressive until you realise that player did nothing to impact the game.
Pele never bragged about any of that while playing or after and unlike other he didn't just changed the way people played in one way but many ways.
The greatest of all time!
The stunning part for me is his inclusion in 1958 world cup despite his incredibly young age
Well done, nice video. RIP Pele, you done your country proud!
I have so much respect for the creator of this content 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You gave short shrift one of Pele’s accomplishments - he popularized soccer in North America. I get that non-North Americans are often very contemptuous of North America in general and soccer specifically but he made a deeply unpopular sport into a top 5 sport to about 425million people. Plus he inadvertently helped create the whole “Retirement League” trope.
Forever Love for the King, PELE!! Your analysis is the truth, Brillant... Great Video Sir!
Excellent homage to the original GOAT. He was unstopped and unplayable in his prime.
Well done Alfie, respectful and insightful
Pele is my greatest of all time, and that's it
great video. Before him, 10 was just a number. RIP
Once again bro, another masterpiece! I personally think he is the greatest of all time playing the beautiful game and top 5 sportsmen as well! RIP Pele
The most beautiful exponent of the most beautiful game.
Immortal in the memories of all lovers of football, he will never truely be dead as long as there is one boy or girl, somewhere in the world, still willing to juggle a ball alone for hours every day or play the game with flair, passion, skill, intelligence and athleticism.
Thanks for the memories and inspiration.
You never fail to amaze me Alfie. Brilliant video:)
The beautiful game will never be the same again.
My Grandpa was a huge fan of pelé. He was the same age , sadly he left us way too early. But I share his love for the beautiful game , and so I share the admiration for Pelé. He was the greatest of all time, for me that is. We knew he didn't have long , but loosing him still hurts. Rest in Peace.
The greatest footballer 1 Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
A very fitting tribute to the great man Alfie. Terrific work!
Pele is my hero, always will be.
Greatest ever. RIP King Pele. Thank you for the beautiful football which is diminishing in modern game today.
RIP pele 🇧🇷
7 players that revolutionized the game of football.
7 managers that revolutionized the game of football.
RIP THE GOAT
Excellent tribute 👍
Lots will be said about Pele in the coming days and weeks, but I don't think anyone will have presented a retrospective as comprehensive and as human as this. I hope you get some kip.
RIP THE FOOTBALL KING! I will always remember you! Always internal!
To those of you citing Messi alongside Pelé as a potential GOAT:
Picture Messi in your head. Now add CR7's physique, jumping and heading capabilities.
But wait: you're still lacking something. Add onto this golem of yours, Kevin de Bruyne's vision and passing.
Now we can talk about who would be better.
Edit: I agree Messi would be the greatest of the century. But of ALL TIME? Sorry, but Pelé is still the one and only true goAT.
Disrespectful mentioning Midgetssi on a thread comment strictly for condolences to Pele, stop compare people, you peseant fan boy.
I had kept up with the news about pele and had emotionally prepared in case of the devastating news of his death. But when heard them, I still shed a tear. There's football before pele and after. Almost as if an entire different sport altogether. If there was ever a face of the sport that is pele. The sheer influence he still has decades after his retirement is a testament of that. R.I.P O Rei 💐👑
Many thanks for putting all this together!!! RIP Pele.
RIP GOAT legend iconic of great PELE
Pele thought the world how to play football ⚽️ He is GOD'S gift to the world ⚽️ Pele is King of Football ⚽️
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant video!!
A wonderful tribute. Thank you 🙂
I had the good fortune to see Pele play twice in 1977. I was living in Hawaii then. The first match was a friendly with the Japanese national team. Pele was with the NY Cosmos in the old NASL. They thrashed them 6-1 and Pele scored three goals. The second time was NY Cosmos at The Hawaiians. The Cosmos won 2-1 and he didn't score anything. I remember reading about him first in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was common knowledge that he was special. I live in the greater San Francisco area now and we have lots of Latin American immigrants in the area. I love watching their eyes light up when I tell them that I got to see him in person twice.
Amazing how you prepared this video so quickly 😮
Probably one of your top 3 greatest videos bruv! Keep up the great work in the New Year.
Brilliant.
Very good tribute to the King. He was also instrumental in civil rights movement as their victory in 58 helped usher in that campaign for racial equality. Then he also stopped a civil War in Nigeria.
Yeah i never got to watch him play (just like many other greats). But i know that when im 50 or 60 years old, there will be ppl who say they never watched messi or ronaldo play and therefore they cant place them at the top.
Which is fair enough. But those of us who got to witness these two (and other great players) will say that they were the best and will die on that hill just like those before us will never relent on pele or maradona (or someone else) being the best.
I will never put him on top just cuz he was way before my time but those who suggest he dsnt even belong r just ignorant. I just hope that us fans who all share this love for football can simply enjoy the greats while they r around and not disrespect those who came before or those who r yet to come.
Im not some pele fan but regardless, thank u for all u did for the game of football, rest easy king.
OHHHH ALFIE POTTS-HAMER . The two greatest to grace their fields of excellence - pele and AP-H
Rip to the goat of the game
Brilliant man
REST IN PEACE KING PELE😭😭😭😭
Its only Pelé and Messi on the Mountain Top..
Thank you 😊
The true GOAT
The GOAT
A true football legend ❤️
Well done Alfie 👏