pele won his last world cup in 1970.
when did pele win his last world cup?
1970
1977 also saw mohun bagan play one of the most significant matches in their history when new york cosmos arrived in kolkata to play a friendly match. on 24 september 1977, 80,000 people gathered in eden gardens to watch cosmos take on mohun bagan. along with pele the star studded new york cosmos side also had carlos alberto, captain of world cup winning brazilian side of 1970 world cup and giorgio chinaglia, serie a top scorer in 1974. under overcast conditions cosmos took a lead through alberto but shyam thapa equalized soon. mohun bagan surprised the spectators by taking a lead through mohammad habib but late in the game chinaglia's goal kept the final scoreline at 2-2. for mohun bagan along with the goalscorers subrata bhattacharya and pradeep chowdhury played well in defence. goutam sarkar did a stellar job marking pele while shibaji banerjee made a brilliant save to deny a pele free-kick.
history of mohun bagan a.c.
in one account of the pele myths she is banished from her home in tahiti by her older sister, namakaokaha'i, for creating hot spots and convincing the rest of her family that pele would burn them all. then, pele travels on the canoe honuaiakea to find a new home with her brother kamohoali'i. her mother gave her an egg to take care of and it later hatches into a baby girl who pele names hi'iaka-i-ka-poli-o-pele (hi'iaka in the bosom of pele) or hi'iaka for short. she is her favorite sister and encouraged her to befriend the people of puna. however, when hi'iaka became best friends with a girl named hopoe, pele became jealous of their friendship. pele saw lohiahu, a chief of kaua'i, in a dream and sent hi'iaka to bring him to her in forty days or else she would punish them. when hi'iaka arrives there, lohiahu is dead but she calls upon the power of the sorcery godess uli to revive him. as hi'iaka is on the journey, pele grew impatient and sent a lava flow to hopoe's home before the forty days were up. when hi'iaka returned to hawaii with lohiahu, she saw hopoe covered in stone and knew pele was behind this. hi'iaka spitefully embraced lohiahu in pele's view, which further angered her, and covered lohiahu with lava as well. the sisters saw that their anger led to the two people who meant the most to them being dead, so pele apologetically brought lohiahu back to life and let him decide who he would choose. unfortunately for pele, lohiahu ended up choosing hi'iaka but gave them her blessing regardless.
pele (deity)