Never filmed, goal considered Pelé's most beautiful will be recreated with AI

Never filmed, goal considered Pelé's most beautiful will be recreated with AI
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Almost 67 years ago, on August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what many consider the most beautiful goal of his career. The move took place during the clash between Santos and Juventus, at Rua Javari, the Mooca club's stadium, in the East Zone of São Paulo.
The goal, however, was never filmed due to technological limitations at the time, according to Juventus (understand below). Now, Google says it will show how the move happened through artificial intelligence resources.
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The announcement was made on Wednesday (10) by the company's president in Brazil, Fábio Coelho, during Google for Brazil 2026, an event in which the company announces its main news for the national market.
According to Google, the recreation of the bid will be revealed in a mini-documentary that should be published on YouTube by the end of this month. On Google for Brazil, the company showed an excerpt from the production, but did not show the scene generated with artificial intelligence.
The teaser shows that part of the film was recorded at the Juventus stadium. Furthermore, Neymar also participates in the documentary. According to the company, the recapture of the bid was based on archives from the time, such as photographs, as well as testimonies from people and players who were present at the match.
The project was developed by the Google DeepMind team, the company's AI research laboratory, with the participation of professionals in Brazil and other countries. They used some of the company's most recent AI models, including:
Nano Banana, Google's AI image generator;
Veo 3, a model capable of creating cinematic videos from text descriptions;
Gemini Omni, technology that allows editing videos using commands in natural language, as if the user were talking to the AI.
This is not the first time that the goal considered the most beautiful of Pelé's career has been attempted. recreation. Santos himself has already released on his social networks versions produced with digital technology and animations to simulate what the goal would have been like.
Why wasn't the goal filmed?
Juventus confirmed to g1 that there is no known video recording of the goal, mainly because of the technological limitations of the time.
At that time, portable cameras did not yet exist and television was taking its first steps in Brazil, reaching only a small portion of the population.
"In addition, the audiovisual coverage of sporting events was quite limited," the club said. According to Juventus, the recording and systematic preservation of football matches was not yet part of the routine of media outlets.
This helps to explain why many historic moments in Brazilian football from the 1950s and 1960s are not recorded in images and are only known through reports from the press at the time and from witnesses who attended the games.

Source: G1