[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzRsvCsC4c&feature=player_embedded] I've never seen this singular beautiful play by Pele before, which Giles Harvey illustrates wonderfully.
Pelé, charging to meet a bespoke through ball from Tostão, outfoxes the approaching Uruguayan keeper by doing nothing at all. Pelé simply allows the pass to run on—to the goalie’s left—as he swerves the other way and then circles back to collect the ball. Of course, he ends up missing—it’s the greatest goal never scored—but that hardly matters. If anything, the fact that he misses seems to intensify the aesthetic quality of the move.
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