There are countless biographies, interviews and articles about Bailey's career, but few people will discuss his political problems in Brazil and his time for Santos in the early 1960s. Due to the political turmoil, Bailey was forbidden to leave Santos. It was such a reckless decision that changed Bailey's career and even his fate.
From 65438 to 0956, Pele made his debut in Santos, when the political situation in Brazil was in a rather chaotic state. Juscelino Kubitschek has just replaced Getulio Vargas as the new president of Brazil. After taking office, Kubicek promised to reform Brazil's political system.
Vargas was a dictatorial ruler during his reign, and finally committed suicide in his office in an uproar. During the period from 195 1 to 1954, Vargas, as the president of Brazil, formed a huge gap with the Brazilian opposition party. His dictatorship also made many military and political dignitaries and media practitioners constantly call for change, and Brazil's domestic morale fell to freezing point.
During the general election, Kubicek boldly promised to provide Brazil with a "fifteen-year development plan" if he took office. Kubicek is quite optimistic about the future of Brazil. Fortunately, the future he envisioned is also reasonable. During his five years in office, he did make efforts to keep Brazil's political situation stable and embarked on economic reforms, so that Brazilian workers got a relatively fair living treatment.
In fact, by the time Kubitschek left office, Brazil's domestic industry had increased by 80%. Unfortunately, during Kubicek's administration, Brazil's domestic inflation rate also increased by 43%, which is what critics have been criticizing.
During Kubicek's administration, Brazil's economy did get great development, but the problem of corruption was also expanding. According to domestic and foreign media reports, the former Brazilian president has huge wealth. To some extent, he must have done a lot of things that he had to climb outside the wall to see during his administration. Although such accusations seem groundless, the existence of these rumors does damage Kubicek's image in people's minds.
Then Giano Cuadros succeeded Kubicek as the new president of Brazil. In the general election of 196 1, Cuadros declared that "Brazil will be free from corruption". Such a plan almost openly attacked Kubicek, and it was precisely because of this that Cuadros successfully won the election. After Quadros succeeded, he quickly blamed the domestic contradictions in Brazil on the high inflation rate caused by the former Brazilian president.
Although Cuadros blamed history for the country's problems, he soon found himself politically isolated. He promulgated laws prohibiting gambling and women wearing bikinis, which soon made Quadros the object of ridicule. At the same time, Quadros's pro-Soviet policy also made him lose the support of European and American countries, making him almost have no foothold in world politics.
Although Brazil's domestic politics was unstable in the 1950s and 1960s, both the Samba Corps and Pele were enjoying a wonderful golden age. Brazil 1958 won the World Cup and became the focus of major media at home and abroad. For the Samba Corps, the Brazilians finally got out of the haze of the 1950 World Cup.
Overseas, people are talking about Pele, the youngest player in the history of the World Cup and a devastating striker in the domestic league. 1960, Pele played 2 10 games for Santos and scored 230 goals. Just as Pele completed this feat, European teams began to ask the young man about the feasibility of moving to Europe.
Brazilian newspapers began to see the news that Pele was about to transfer to a European team, and this situation began to strengthen in the late 1960s. At that time, Santos received many transfer applications from European giants, including Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and Manchester United.
196 1, Inter Milan expressed their willingness to take away the San striker of Santos with a transfer fee of one million dollars, while at the Belmino Stadium, there were rumors that Pele was about to leave Santos. For this, the fans are quite dissatisfied, which is not surprising. Perhaps it is for this reason that Santos finally rejected this proposal. However, the rumor that Pele left Santos is not over yet, and soon the quotations from Real Madrid and Manchester United will follow.
In 2005, Pele told 442 that Juventus President Agnelli personally contacted him.
When Bailey became famous all over Europe, Quadros was still pacing up and down in his office in Brasilia. Cuadros knows that so far, his popular support rate is minimal. After all, as a president, it is simply unbearable to ban women from wearing bikinis on the most popular beaches. Although this seems to be a trivial matter, this regulation has caused quite a stir in Brazil.
In fact, when Quadros was about to end his term, Bailey had the opportunity to leave Brazil and land in Europe. But Pele is not only an outstanding football player, but also a symbol of Brazilian football. So Quadros knew that he couldn't let Bailey leave during his term of office, and he was worried that Bailey's departure would affect his political future. So he acted quickly, pushed the bill and regarded Bailey as a national treasure. This is not only a nominal affirmation, but also a legal means to prevent Bailey from leaving the country.
For Santos, this is an excellent thing. They can continue to have Pele without fear and enjoy the goals he brings to the team. Quadros's action did get the support of some people, but his behavior also limited the development of Brazilian football in the next decade. When Brazil lifted the World Cup trophy again with 1962, Santos didn't care how Pele performed in the game, because they knew Pele would definitely stay here.
Although Cuadros only served as Brazil's president for seven months, his successor also insisted on such a decree and revised it. Why would they do that? Because of the joy brought by Bailey to Brazilians, the rulers can use Bailey's relationship to gain the support of some people. Quadros is already a successful case. In other words, under the interaction of politics and football, the greatest football player in the world can only run in Brazil because of the restrictions of national laws.
Today, when we asked Pele why he didn't want to leave Santos (in his golden age), Pele just smiled and responded that he never wanted to leave the team in the golden age of his career. Would things be different if the situation of Cuadros' administration changed? Sadly, there is no "if" in this world. History is history, which has left us good memories and brought us regrets.