A tale from the good old days!

SME – Written by: Muhammad Al-Joker
The relegation of the ancient Brazilian Santos to the second division and the first team from the Samba country to visit the Arab countries. In one of the articles I dealt with the story of his historic visit, which aroused the concerns of my colleagues. Some of them from Egypt revealed to me his story, which must be mentioned because we were closely linked to Brazilian football and it contributed to the love of our fans. For the first popular game in the world, when Pele played with his team against Al-Ahly of Cairo, a 5-0 defeat. The Red Devils sought help from Ali Abu Jarisha, the star of the Ismaili “Dervishes.” An insurance company allocated a reward of 5,000 pounds to whoever scored a goal against Santos. During that period, the Egyptian pound was in the balance, and everyone was keen to score a goal to obtain the reward, and of course at the expense of the collective performance, so Al-Ahly left empty-handed. The importance of the match was that it was shown recorded in some cinemas due to the overwhelming popularity of the Santos team, led by the jewel Pele. When he left the plane door at Cairo Airport, he made the victory sign, and some journalists interpreted it as meaning that by this sign he meant to score two goals in the match, which is what actually happened!
Among the tales of the “Beautiful Time” in its last years in the seventies of the last century, one of its heroes is the Brazilian football legend “Pele” and a famous Egyptian actress, the late Zubaida Tharwat, “the owner of the most beautiful eyes that Egyptian cinema has ever known,” and who herself revealed the story in May 2005 in a television interview in… The player fell in love with her at first sight in Kuwait, and asked her to marry him
She told in the interview that she had received an invitation to attend the opening of a television festival in 1973 in Kuwait, and when she arrived and entered the hotel, she found in its salon a crowd around a young man surrounded by wreaths, and that dark-skinned man was none other than Pele, whose visit to the region she reviewed, as he came to her in February of that year as a player with The “Santos” team played a match against the Kuwaiti “Al-Qadisiyah” team, which took place on Sunday, February 12, 1973, at the Shuwaikh High School Stadium and ended in a positive draw. Stories of the good old days are interesting to read so that people can get to know them, especially if they relate to the black jewel Pele!