Camisa da Seleção Brasileira utilizada por Pelé na disputa da Final da Copa do Mundo de 1958 - Artigo

Camisa da Seleção Brasileira utilizada por Pelé na disputa da Final da Copa do Mundo de 1958 - Artigo

Artigo

Uma das relíquias mais emblemáticas da história das Copas do Mundo será colocada à venda. A camisa usada por Pelé na final do Mundial de 1958, disputada entre Brasil e Suécia, será leiloada pela casa Sotheby’s com valor estimado superior a US$ 6 milhões – cerca de R$ 30 milhões na cotação atual.

O período de lances começa em 29 de junho e termina em 16 de julho, dias antes da decisão da Copa do Mundo de 2026. A expectativa é que o item se torne a peça ligada a Pelé mais valiosa já negociada e possa até ameaçar o recorde de camisa de futebol mais cara da história, atualmente pertencente à famosa camisa do “Gol da Mão de Deus”, usada por Diego Maradona, arrematada por US$ 9,28 milhões em 2022.

A peça remete à noite em que um jovem Pelé, então com apenas 17 anos, brilhou diante da Suécia ao marcar dois gols na vitória brasileira por 5 a 2, resultado que garantiu ao Brasil seu primeiro título mundial. Até hoje, o ex-camisa 10 segue como o atleta mais jovem a disputar e balançar as redes em uma final de Copa do Mundo.

Após a conquista, Pelé presenteou o companheiro de seleção e colega de quarto durante o torneio, Dida, com a histórica camisa número 10.

O uniforme permaneceu por décadas sob os cuidados da família de Dida, em Maceió, antes de ser incorporado, em 1993, ao acervo do Museu dos Esportes Edvaldo Alves Santa Rosa. Anos depois, em setembro de 2004, o museu decidiu leiloar a peça. O comprador da ocasião desembolsou aproximadamente US$ 105 mil e agora, mais de duas décadas depois, recoloca o item no mercado.

Em comunicado divulgado pela Sotheby’s, o responsável pelo setor de colecionáveis modernos da empresa, Brahm Wachter, destacou o peso histórico da peça.

“Esta não é apenas uma camisa – é o uniforme usado por um dos maiores jogadores da história do futebol na noite em que começou o seu reinado, entregue por suas próprias mãos a um amigo e preservado cuidadosamente por mais de seis décadas”, afirmou.

Ele ainda ressaltou a singularidade do objeto no universo do colecionismo esportivo. “Sua importância histórica não tem paralelo no mercado de memorabilia do futebol e está diretamente ligada ao legado do primeiro grande ícone global do esporte”.

O crescimento do mercado de itens esportivos raros ajuda a explicar a projeção milionária do leilão. Como comparação, uma venda realizada em 2016 com mais de 2 mil objetos ligados a Pelé – incluindo medalhas de Copas do Mundo, troféus e a coroa comemorativa do milésimo gol – arrecadou cerca de US$ 4,2 milhões no total, cifra inferior à estimativa atual para a única camisa usada na final de 1958.

Além disso, recordes envolvendo itens do Rei já vêm sendo quebrados nos últimos anos. Em 2022, um card de Pelé lançado em 1958 alcançou US$ 1,33 milhão em negociação privada, tornando-se o primeiro cartão de futebol a ultrapassar a marca de sete dígitos. Trecho de texto da Infomoney.

Texto 2:

There are moments in sport that transcend the game itself, moments that become the very foundation upon which an entire mythology is built. The 1958 FIFA World Cup Final at Rasunda Stadium in Stockholm on June 29th, 1958, was one such moment, and the shirt offered here was at the center of it. It was worn by a seventeen-year-old Brazilian named Edson Arantes do Nascimento, ‘Pele’, on the evening he announced himself to the world, and on the evening the world acknowledged, with absolute certainty, that it was witnessing something it had never seen before.

Pele scored twice in the final, finishing with a tournament total of six goals from four matches, and became the youngest player ever to appear in and score in a World Cup Final, a record that stands to this day. Brazil defeated the host nation Sweden by five goals to two. When the final whistle sounded, Pele collapsed on the pitch in tears, overwhelmed by a moment that even he, with all the confidence of youth, could barely have imagined. The images of that evening have become some of the most reproduced in the history of the sport. This shirt was there.

Brazil arrived in Sweden in the summer of 1958 bearing the weight of a nation's expectations and the scars of two prior failures. They had lost to Uruguay in the final of the 1950 tournament on home soil, a defeat so devastating it was referred to simply as the “Maracanazo”, or The Maracaña Smash, in reference to where the match took place. After the match, a 9-year old Pele watched his father weep and vowed to win him a World Cup one day. The result is still considered one of the biggest upsets in football history. They had fallen in the quarter-finals in 1954. The 1958 squad was built differently: it included Didi, the elegant orchestrator of midfield; Garrincha, the winger of supernatural dribbling ability; Vava, a powerful and clinical centre-forward; and among the youngest in the squad, barely known outside of Santos, a teenager from Tres Coracoes.

Pele was not in the starting eleven at the outset. The number ten shirt belonged to Dida, Edvaldo Alves Santa Rosa, the second-highest scorer in the history of Flamengo. It was Dida who began the tournament for Brazil, and it was Dida who shared a hotel room with the young substitute throughout the squad's preparations. The friendship that formed between them in those weeks would prove to be the defining chain of custody for this shirt.

Pele entered the tournament in the third group stage match against the Soviet Union, scoring in a 2-0 victory. His impact was immediate and undeniable. Against Wales in the quarter-finals, he scored the only goal of the match, the youngest player ever to score at that stage of the tournament at the time. Against France in the semi-finals, he scored a hat-trick in a 5-2 victory, the second goal a chest-control and volley of devastating technique. He arrived at the final with five goals and a reputation that had spread far beyond the terraces of Stockholm.

The final, played at the Rasunda Stadium on 29 June 1958, began badly for Brazil. Sweden took the lead within four minutes through Nils Liedholm. Brazil responded emphatically. Vava equalised, then scored again. Pele produced a moment of extraordinary skill for the third goal. Zagallo, who would go on to manage Brazil to the 1970 title, made it four. Sweden pulled one back. Then, with minutes remaining, Pele headed home the fifth. Brazil were champions for the first time. Pele wept on the shoulder of the veteran Djalma Santos, and the image became a symbol of the entire tournament.

The first of Pele's two goals in the final, Brazil's third of the match, arrived ten minutes into the second half and is considered by many to be the most technically extraordinary goal ever scored on the World Cup's greatest stage. With Brazil leading 2-1, Nilton Santos delivered a cross into the penalty area. Pele, standing with his back to goal inside the box, controlled the ball on his chest as it dropped. In a single fluid sequence, he twisted away from the closest Swedish defender, who was left kicking nothing but air, then impudently lifted the ball over the head of the next defender with the outside of his foot. As the ball dropped, without letting it touch the ground, he met it with a precise, whipped volley that flew past the helpless Swedish goalkeeper Kalle Svensson into the corner of the net. The entire sequence, from chest-control to finish, involved three touches. The ball never hit the ground.

The Swedish crowd, which had arrived to support its own team in a World Cup final on home soil, rose to applaud. Sigvard Parling, the Swedish centre-back who watched it happen from yards away, later said: 'After Pele scored the fifth goal I did not want to mark him anymore. I just wanted to applaud him.' The BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme captured the moment simply: 'Pele, who has played such a magnificent part in this victory, is just 17.' Peter Lorenzo of The Daily Herald described him as 'the wriggling shadow of black lightning with the ball-jugglery of a circus star, leaving a trail of mesmerised, head-shaking Swedish defenders in his wake.'

The second goal came in the final minutes with Brazil leading 4-2, and was a statement of a different kind. Rather than individual brilliance, it was a goal of authority and intelligence, the finishing touch of a player already in complete command of the occasion. Pele laid the ball to Zagallo and continued his run into the penalty area, arriving precisely as Zagallo's cross came back in. He met it at full elevation with a header of remarkable power and placement, sending it beyond the goalkeeper to complete the 5-2 victory and his own double.

Together the two goals represent the full compass of Pele's gifts: the first a work of spontaneous, unrepeatable artistry that has been described as the greatest goal in World Cup final history; the second a demonstration of intelligence, movement and composure. Both were scored wearing the shirt offered here.

To speak of Pele solely as a footballer is to misunderstand what he became. He was the sport's first truly global icon, a figure whose name carried meaning in countries where football was barely played, in languages that had no word for the kind of joy he produced on a pitch. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940 in Tres Coracoes, Minas Gerais, to a family of limited means, he played football barefoot for years, before he joined Santos at the age of fifteen and made his international debut for Brazil at sixteen. By the time he returned from Stockholm in the summer of 1958, he was already something more than a footballer. He was a phenomenon.

In 1961, the Brazilian government under President Jânio Quadros declared Pelé an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country. The decree came after years of intense interest from Europe: following the 1958 World Cup, wealthy clubs such as Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United tried unsuccessfully to sign him, and Inter Milan even secured a contract in 1958 before the club's owner tore it up at the request of Santos's chairman after a revolt by Santos fans. By classifying the 20-year-old as a national asset, the government made it legally impossible for foreign clubs to buy him, ensuring he would remain with Santos, where he stayed for nearly two decades until 1974. The move worked out well for Brazilian football: Pelé led Santos to victories in the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup, ultimately scoring 643 goals in 659 official games for the club. Pelé himself later took the designation in stride, joking in a 2016 interview that while it was an honor, he still paid income tax like anybody else, and adding that he was happy at Santos and had no real desire to play abroad anyway.

Over the following two decades, Pele won three World Cups with Brazil, in 1958, 1962 and 1970, a record no other player has matched or come close to matching. He scored 1,281 goals across his career by official count. He was so singular that the Nigerian government and Biafran rebels agreed a 48-hour ceasefire in 1967 so that both sides could watch him play in an exhibition match. He appeared in films, recorded music, and was received by heads of state. He was appointed Brazil's Minister of Sport. He was the first athlete the modern world recognised as something beyond sport.

Yet perhaps his most consequential act was what he chose to do at the end of his career. In 1975, Pele came out of retirement to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, in a country where the sport had never found meaningful footing against American football, baseball and basketball. His contract, worth $2.8 million over three years, made him the highest-paid athlete in the world at the time. The effect was immediate and transformative.

Crowds that had never watched a football match filled Yankee Stadium and then Giants Stadium to see him play. Celebrities, politicians and cultural figures were drawn into his orbit. His arrival opened the door for Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia, George Best, Gerd Muller, Johan Cruyff and Carlos Alberto to follow him to the NASL, and a generation of American children took up the game in his wake. The attendance record for a standalone national club match in the United States, set at Giants Stadium in 1977 when 77,891 fans watched Cosmos face Santos, still stands to this day.

The NASL did not survive long after Pele's departure, but the grassroots game he had ignited could not be extinguished. Youth participation in football across the United States grew exponentially through the late 1970s and into the 1980s. When the United States hosted the 1994 World Cup to record global attendances, and when Major League Soccer launched in 1996, the direct line of inheritance ran back to Pele and the Cosmos. The 2026 World Cup returns to North America. As MLS Commissioner Don Garber reflected upon Pele's passing in December 2022: 'Without him, there likely is no 2026 World Cup to look forward to in America.'

Pelé's influence on the sport extended far beyond goals and trophies. He did more than any individual to shape the culture and language of football as the world came to know it. The number 10 shirt, now universally understood as the symbol of a team's most creative and gifted player, owes its mystique almost entirely to the seventeen-year-old who wore it by administrative accident in Stockholm in 1958 and transformed it into the most coveted number in the game. The bicycle kick, a technique with contested South American origins, was introduced to a global audience through Pelé's execution of it, most memorably in the 1958 World Cup against Wales and later to millions of new fans through his appearance in the 1981 film Escape to Victory. And it was Pelé, through his 1977 autobiography and his years as football's global ambassador, who carried the phrase "o jogo bonito" — the beautiful game — out of the Brazilian footballing vernacular and into the consciousness of the English-speaking world, giving the sport a phrase that has defined how it speaks about itself ever since.

He passed away on 29 December 2022 at the age of 82. The President of Brazil declared three days of national mourning. The flags at the Maracana flew at half-mast. The tributes came from every country on earth. What had begun on a June evening in Stockholm in 1958, wearing the shirt offered here, had over sixty-four years changed the sport and, in no small measure, changed the world.

The shirts worn by Brazil in the 1958 World Cup Final carry their own remarkable history. The tournament organisers required Brazil to change from their customary yellow in the final, as Sweden's colours were deemed insufficiently distinct. The Brazilian delegation, led by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, procured a set of plain blue shirts at short notice. The players themselves assisted in transferring the CBD badges from the yellow shirts onto the new blue ones, and improvised numbers by cutting shapes from the yellow equipment bags that had carried the squad's kit. The resulting garments were entirely handmade in their finish, stitched together by the players in the days before the match. The shirt offered here is one of those garments.

It bears the number ten on the back, cut and sewn in the manner described. It was worn by Pele throughout the match against Sweden, the same match in which he scored twice and became the most celebrated player on earth.

After the match, Pele presented the shirt to his teammate Dida, the player whose number he had inherited. It was a gesture of affection and recognition between two young men who had grown close during the weeks of the tournament, and it ensured the shirt passed immediately into the care of a direct participant.

According to the provenance documentation accompanying the shirt, upon returning to Brazil, Dida entrusted the shirt to his family in Maceio, capital of the state of Alagoas, where it remained in the keeping of his brother Edson Santa Rosa from 1958 until 1992. In 1993, the Museu dos Esportes Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa was founded in Maceio by sports journalist Lauthenay Perdigao in honour of Dida, who donated the shirt to the museum's collection in recognition of its historical significance. The shirt became the institution's most valued object, displayed to visitors on a daily basis.

The authenticity of the shirt has been attested to by four members of the 1958 World Cup-winning squad. In addition to Dida himself, three further champions have confirmed the provenance of the number ten: Nilton Santos, Orlando Pecanha, and Mario Zagallo, all of whom visited the museum and provided their authentication. The shirt was subsequently offered at public auction in September 2004, at Christies, at which point its full documented history was set out formally in writing by the then-owner. The shirt has not been exhibited to the public in over two decades.

What is offered here is not simply a shirt. It is the garment worn by the greatest footballer who ever lived on the night his reign began, passed by his own hand to a friend and preserved with care for more than six decades. Its historical importance is without parallel in the football memorabilia market. Trecho de texto da Sotheby's.

Nota do blog 1: Se a CBF tivesse vergonha na cara, comprava a camisa do Pelé e colocava em exposição no seu museu. Vai custar menos que cinco meses de salário desse técnico italiano retranqueiro que contrataram e nos fez passar vergonha na atual Copa do Mundo. E isso ainda seria nada, levando-se em conta que essa entidade vagabunda deixou roubarem a Taça Jules Rimet que Pelé e seus companheiros ganharam para o Brasil.

Nota do blog 2: A camisa foi vendida por 4,9 milhões de dólares (equivalente a R$ 25 milhões). O comprador não foi revelado.

Nota do blog 3: Data 2026 / Crédito para Sotheby's.