Pele Historical Goal Recreated: The great footballer Pele always remembered one of his goals, which he scored with a header over three defenders without letting the ball fall. He and his fans were sorry that that moment could not be recorded in the video, but now Google’s team has made the fans’ dream come true by creating an exact video of that moment with the help of AI.
Video made of Pele’s magic goal
- In the year 1959, the great footballer Pele had scored a goal, which he himself considered to be the best goal of his career. According to reports, he dodged the goalkeeper by tossing the ball in the air over three defenders and scored a brilliant goal with a header without the ball falling on the ground.
- This goal is called Gol da Rua Javari. However, no video recording of this historic address had been done yet.
- This goal was limited to the memories of only a few thousand viewers, but with the help of Google’s Gemini AI, a realistic video of the moment has been created.
How to make a video with Gemini
- To make a video of this moment with the help of Gemini, Google interviewed those people of the team who had seen that match with their own eyes in the 60s.
- Apart from this, the team tried to understand what actually happened on the field that day by combining old photographs of that time, photographs of the stadium, spectators and players.
Motion capture and recreation from real people
- After gathering the information, Google recreated and shot those moments with real people in that stadium.
- For this, the heavy leather ball used at that time, Pele’s black shoes and old style uniform were made.
- It can be considered like motion capture used in films.
- However, the difference was that heavy gear or any kind of technical suit was not used in it.
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What did Gemini and Veo do?
- After all this research and shooting, Google handed over all the data to AI.
- With the help of Google’s Gemini Omni, Nano Banana Pro image generator and Veo video engine, the video was given an old-world look.
- After this, the stuntman was transformed into Pele using digital technology and the entire stadium of 1959 was also created digitally.
- Seeing Pele’s goal being scored in front of you on video is no less than a dream for football fans.
- The special thing was that Google did this work with the permission of Pele’s family and with the help of historians.
- According to reports, Pele’s daughter told that her father always regretted that there was no record of this goal.
- He said that he would have been very happy to see this video today.
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