Two short stories from the Football field!

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Five birds with one stone

One of the most special and at the same time the most surprising cases, as far as the memory is kept in punishing players with a card at one time, happened in
the season 1971 – 1972 in the English championship in the match between Manchester United and Coventry City in the mythical stadium.

Old Trafford!

The five Coventry players who form the wall in the event of a free kick are signaled by the match referee to keep the legal distance of 9.15m (10 yards). But the players don’t even want to know, they even oppose doing such a thing.

Now the referee has no choice but to calmly act by punishing the five once with a yellow card.

2.

The duel between Pele and Mazurkiewicz!

The sequence from Pele’s famous treble against Mazurkiewicz, with the goalkeeper remaining in place between the ball on one side and Pele on the other.</strong> For all those who do not know him, his name was Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, the goalkeeper of Uruguay with Polish origins from his father.

He passed away in 2013. He defended the goal of the blue national team of Uruguay from 1965 to 1974.

As for Edson Arantes Do Nashimento – Pele, there is no need for an introduction. “Orei” of classic football celebrated his 80th birthday on October 23.

But let’s go back to the famous duel of the two protagonists in the battle match between Brazil and Uruguay in the semi-final of the World Cup in Mexico in 1970.

The match was tied at 1-1 and was never resolved, after the goals of Cubillas 19′ Clodoaldo 44`. When, suddenly, Pele breaks forward in the attack, coming out alone with the goalkeeper who leaves the goal and comes forward to the arc of the penalty area. But Pele makes an incredible maneuver leaving the goalkeeper in place: he passes the ball to him from the right, while he turns to the left and controlling it with speed, he shoots but the ball ends up very close to the upright post.

An episode that has remained in the memory, as well as the symbolic player of world football, showing in this case, in addition to technical skills, an excellent athletic preparation.

Mazurkiewicz looks up and thanks the heavens, but nevertheless Jairsinho and Rivelino give Brazil the 3-1 victory and passage to the final.

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Reference: “Calcio 2000” magazine, personal collection!

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