The scenes, which play on 19 November 1969 in the Maracanã Stadium of Rio de Janeiro, are still unforgotten. Brazils Football Icon Pelé meets in the match between Vasco da Gama and his FC Santos by penalty and for the 1000th time in his incomparable career.
The photographers and other media representatives storm the place, on the shoulders of fans and his teammates, Pelé is carried over the field. The game could only be continued after a longer interruption.
At 29 years, O REI Pelé, King Pelé, had cracked the 1000-hit barrier. That the penalty was controversial, Pele did not bleak in an interview: With todays video Assistant Refer (Var), the penalty would probably have not been given, flattest of the 81-year-old world champion and century players of the World Association FIFA.
65,157 cards were sold for Rios football temples, which has long no longer reached 200,000 spectators than at the home World Cup 1950. However, still 80,000 fans should have been in the arena. Santos won at the end 2: 1 — thanks to Pelé and its penalty hit by low shot in the lower right corner.
I do not need a party to celebrate that, said Pelé after the hit, who came into the football annals: For me, it is much more important to help poor children and needy. I think about the kind of Christmas who will spend these people.
At the end of his career stood for Pelé 1363 games and 1284 goals to beech. In front of him, the Czech striker Josef Bic an (1468) and Bomber Herd Müller (1461) and the German-Brazilian Arthur (1461) and the German-Brazilian Arthur, which scored 1329 matches in 1909 and 1935, are standing in the eternal goalkeeper rankings worldwide. He was also the first one who broke the 1000-door sound wall.
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