An unforgettable match and the memory of Xuxa

At 87 years old Luisito Suarez Her eyes sparkled as she looked at a black and white photo, which looked elegant in a silver frame on the TV shelf in the living room of the apartment she lived in in Milan and where she appeared to be with him. Kubala and a young man Pele. This corresponds to the second of three visits of ‘O King with the saints in Camp Nouafter winning the first one world for Brazil in Sweden. It was July 3, 1960, just one year after the beating of Santos a boat full of substitutes. But the second time the result will be very different. Before the fight Suarez remembers that “a photographer approached us Laszi and me to take a picture together Pele”. With a mischievous smile, ‘Luisito’ clinches: “the man was at all wrong, because between the three of us we scored four goals, two of mine and the other two were shared by them, so the photo that came out is good”. That night, the blaugrana avenged last year’s defeat by winning 4-3, with a fourth goal from the Uruguayan. villaverde.

In 1960, the elegant Galician midfielder became the only Spanish male footballer capable of winning the Ballon d’Or, until now. He was twenty-five years old and at the end of that season, after losing against the benfica in Bern the fateful final of the European Cup, will be moved to Inter Milan for the record figure, at that time, of twenty-five million pesetas, about one hundred and fifty thousand euros. Before, however, he saw that both PeleWhat Kubala autograph on a photograph that is with him wherever he lives and has a very special meaning, because it brings together three cracks from three different generations.

in 1982 Pele I’m going back to the stadium FC Barcelonabut no longer as a footballer, but as a commentator for the most powerful Brazilian television network.or globe‘, the great communication empire in Brazil as part of the big team that moved to the World Cup in Spain. ‘oh king‘ He is forty years old, eight years ago he retired as a footballer in the North American Cosmos. 10 is the star commentator of the matches of the ‘canarinha’, eliminated by Italy in the second stage of the tournament in the Sarrià field, who lived the best three days of the tournament in the clashes between the Italians, Brazilians and Argentines , the current champion and which looks like a young man named Diego Armando Maradona that Barça just signed. The presence of ‘O Rei’ caused a great stir, not only in the sports press, but also in gossip, because of his year-long affair with a young eighteen-year-old model who had no others. xxxwho later became another world star for her children’s television ‘shows’.

The girl accompanied the legendary figure of soccer in all matches and in the semifinal played at Camp Nou between Italy and Poland. I took advantage of the collusion I made with the driver/bodyguard of Pele so we could record an interview with him as we made our way down the steps of the Camp Nou grandstand, where the commentary positions were set up. ‘oh king‘ He was very kind and the next day he congratulated me at a publicity event Hotel Ritz, where several Sanyo radio alarm clocks, which have been sitting on my nightstand for more than two decades, are on display. And I suppose on more than one occasion I must have woken up from a dream, I think xxx of the hero.