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Sport of the seventies officially ended with the Super Bowl last night. Rod Laver no longer slams serves. The Juice no longer darts through defenses and Joe Namath no longer flings footballs. Pele is in an office. Say Hey is in the Hall. But Gordie skates...
...Pele--no silky smooth movement, no Oscar-winning imitations of a gazelle. No, just good, solid soccer--the kind of play that should see him hitting the post, or just inside of it, with something other than his knee in the upcoming ASL season...
Soccer coach George Ford: "If I had a dime for every time I said 'We couldn't put the ball in the net,' I could buy Pele and never have to say it again...
...emerged. One was that Brazil's team, a cinder of its old self, could reach the final by playing its third scoreless tie in six games, and by scoring only five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian...
...third goal, which opened the flood gates, was one of the nicest you'll ever see. It was a Lee Nelson diving header off a low cross from the left corner by Alberto Villar. This was worthy of opening film footage from ABC Wide World of Sports--Pele shoots, scores and the fans go wild...