The time Pele played against the USSR

For many years, the legendary Brazilian dreamed of scoring a goal against his friend and one of the best goalkeepers in football history - Lev Yashin. In 1965, his dream finally came true.

Seventeen-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, played his first game against the Soviet national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. For the future "King of Football", that international tournament was