About the Event
In 1950, Brazil was handed a crushing soccer defeat at the biggest game of the season. The impact of that loss drove talented 10-year-old, Pelé, to vow to join the national team and regain his country’s honor. Eight years later he fulfilled that promise. Four years after that, his team did it again in 1962. In 1970, after Pelé’s retirement, a violent dictatorship all but forced him back into the game, cementing the sportsman’s legend. He is, to this day, the only player to win three international championships. Playwright and performer Daniel J. Watts (2000 Dance) shares the athlete’s journey from victory to disappointment, from pain to culminating triumph in this musical storytelling experience.
Photo by William Avery Photography.