 Pelé, and numerous journalists and pundits, would later describe the save as the greatest in the history of the game. Banks would later say "They won 't remember me for winning the World Cup, it'll be for that save. That's how big a thing it is. People just want to talk about that save." In 2002 the UK public voted the save No. 41 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.
