A leather football signed on the occasion of the Brazil v Mexico international match 30th September 1970, signed by both the Brazil and Mexico international teams; sold together with a b&w press photo of Pele in action for Santos, signed and dedicated to the reverse; another photograph of Pele; and a cased Mexican silver 1970 World Cup commemorative medal (4). This was Brazil’s first... More

A leather football signed on the occasion of the Brazil v Mexico international match 30th September 1970, signed by both the Brazil and Mexico international teams; sold together with a b&w press photo of Pele in action for Santos, signed and dedicated to the reverse; another photograph of Pele; and a cased Mexican silver 1970 World Cup commemorative medal (4). This was Brazil’s first international match after being crowned world champions in Mexico in 1970. The game was a friendly played at the Maracana in Rio gave the Brazilian public the first opportunity to hail their champions on the football field since the World Cup. Brazil won the game 2-1. The signatures were obtained by Pele on behalf of his friend Reynaldo Renato Figueiredo, an airline pilot who had an apartment in the same block as Pele in Sao Paulo. A privately taken picture of Pele with Figueiredo in the cockpit of a plane is included in the lot