The whole country had been waiting for this moment for weeks. In the gigantic bowl of the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, 80,000 people crowded despite the pouring rain to be there when Pelé scored the 1000th goal of his career, the wordy "O Milésimo," in his FC Santos game against Vasco da Gama ".

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