That player was none other than the Brazilian legend Pele, regarded by most football aficionados as the greatest player ever to grace the football field.
Pele visited India twice — the first time in 1977 as part of the New York Cosmos team, which he had joined towards the end of his career, travelling across the world to promote the game through exhibition matches.
On his second visit in 2015, Pele arrived in New Delhi and then went to Kolkata on a week-long tour. He witnessed the Subroto Cup U-17 final in Delhi.
It was his visit in 1977 that generated huge interest in the country and is still remembered by thousands of fans who had lined-up the road from Kolkata’s Dum Dum to his hotel and then from his hotel to the Eden Gardens, which had around 80,000 spectators.
It was an especially memorable visit for the team from the iconic Mohun Bagan...
Pele visited India twice — the first time in 1977 as part of the New York Cosmos team, which he had joined towards the end of his career, travelling across the world to promote the game through exhibition matches.
On his second visit in 2015, Pele arrived in New Delhi and then went to Kolkata on a week-long tour. He witnessed the Subroto Cup U-17 final in Delhi.
It was his visit in 1977 that generated huge interest in the country and is still remembered by thousands of fans who had lined-up the road from Kolkata’s Dum Dum to his hotel and then from his hotel to the Eden Gardens, which had around 80,000 spectators.
It was an especially memorable visit for the team from the iconic Mohun Bagan...
- 12/29/2022
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
PERUGIA, Italy -- Any one of a score of stories about the wacky world of the New York Cosmos soccer team in the 1970s could fill a movie theater with laughter and amazement. Even those who aren't fans of the game have to appreciate the screwball situation of a misplaced team playing an unpopular sport with foreign players in a country that had lost its way. But perhaps the most interesting character in the drama of goals, greed and girls was Shep Messing, the U.S. goalkeeper who was a native New Yorker and probably the least comfortable of all the Cosmos. Messing was a key character on the team of stars put together by Warner Communications chairman Steve Ross years before most American parents were driving their kids to soccer practice. The Cosmos roster also included Pele, the world's greatest soccer player; Franz Beckenbauer, the German soccer icon who led his country's World Cup organizing committee; and the charismatic Italian idol Giorgio Chinaglia. Messing is a key character in a new film that chronicles the rise and fall of the Cosmos, a club team that was playing in a dilapidated facility on Randall's Island when Ross tried to turn them into the world's most glamorous team.
- 6/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PERUGIA, Italy -- Any one of a score of stories about the wacky world of the New York Cosmos soccer team in the 1970s could fill a movie theater with laughter and amazement. Even those who aren't fans of the game have to appreciate the screwball situation of a misplaced team playing an unpopular sport with foreign players in a country that had lost its way. But perhaps the most interesting character in the drama of goals, greed and girls was Shep Messing, the U.S. goalkeeper who was a native New Yorker and probably the least comfortable of all the Cosmos. Messing was a key character on the team of stars put together by Warner Communications chairman Steve Ross years before most American parents were driving their kids to soccer practice. The Cosmos roster also included Pele, the world's greatest soccer player; Franz Beckenbauer, the German soccer icon who led his country's World Cup organizing committee; and the charismatic Italian idol Giorgio Chinaglia. Messing is a key character in a new film that chronicles the rise and fall of the Cosmos, a club team that was playing in a dilapidated facility on Randall's Island when Ross tried to turn them into the world's most glamorous team.
- 6/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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