Pele vs Maradona: A rivalry that found peace in bitterness
ON October 1, 1977, Brazilian football superstar Pele was handed the microphone to address the crowd ahead of a friendly between New York Cosmos, the team he had played with for over two years, and his beloved Santos, where his career started and reached dizzying peaks. Among the sold-out crowd at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey was boxing legend Muhammad Ali and England’s World Cup winning former captain Bobby Moore, apart from Pele’s father and wife.
“Love is more important than what we can take in life,” he told the crowd before commencing the game, in which he played for Cosmos in the first half and Santos
