Word: eusebio
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...remembers Eusebio seeming to stand above his teammates, literally and figuratively, dominating midfield and challenging Pele...
...action was the Boston Minutemen--New York Cosmos game last June 20 at Boston University's Nickerson Field. It was also the showdown between Pele (hopefully he needs no introduction) and Eusebio, who was second only to Pele when he reigned as the king of soccer. No-one else deserved to be mentioned in the same sentence with them...
Etched in one's mind are a few flashes of brilliance: Eusebio unleashing a long banana kick on a free kick which dipped, as if by divine will, under the crossbar leaving the goalie and crowd stunned and awed; Pele dribbling around and through a few defenders and scoring on his second shot...
...Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from Pelé to the pretenders: England's Bobby Charlton, Portugal's Eusebio...
...dazzling exhibition of footloose genius, Eusebio sinks North Korea by personally pile-driving four goals into the net. But in the English team, Eusebio meets rather more than his match. No genius in this lot, but the English are drilled and driven by a demonic will to win. So is West Germany, and in the final game of the tournament the two put on an awesome display of pedal operatics. They leap like gin-crazed kangaroos, block like Green Bay Packers, swing their heads like sledge hammers, flip like tumblers and boot the ball 30 yards upfield while standing...