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Pele
Pele (Edson Arantis do Nascimento, born October 23, 1940) is nothing less than the king of football, the most recognizable athlete in the world, the best fielder of the 20th century.
A real living legend and a role model for a million boys!
Pele is currently the only person who has three World Cup titles in his national team, who won as a player.
In addition, he is the most productive striker with 1,289 goals to his credit in all official games.
Little Pele's path to football was practically spelled out, because his dad Dondinho (Joao Ramos do Nascimento) he was a professional football player himself, but due to a serious injury, he hung up his boots early on a nail, and began to pay all his attention to Edson – he taught him everything that he could himself.
And his father's lessons were not in vain – already at the age of 7, Pele is enrolled in a local team, where he almost immediately begins to stand out among his peers.
Naturally, such a bright game, even at the youth level, sooner or later had to attract attention.
One day, a former Brazilian national team player Valdemar de Brito came to the team as a coach, who without hesitation gives Edson to watch at Santos.
And already at the age of 16, Pele makes his debut for the main team of a big club from Sao Paulo.
Moreover, Pele scores immediately in the first match against Corinthians.
His debut, as well as his technique, made a splash among the fans.
Immediately there were exclamations that it was time for the guy to join the national team (this is at his 16!!!).
For all the time spent at Santos, and Pele spent a lot of it there no joke, 18 years at the club (1956-1974), 11 championships of the state of Sao Paulo, 11 times he became the top scorer of the draw: a record in 1958 – 58 goals, 6 Brazilian Cups, 2 Libertadores Cups (analogous to the European Champions League), 1 Intercontinental Cup.
Experts say that there were no weak points in Pele's game.
Edson was a combination player to the core, he never "pulled the blanket over himself".
He read the game perfectly, felt the field.
"It is impossible to win football without common efforts," says Pele.
"Football is a team, a team, not one or two or three star players."
His most accurate passes made everyone in the stadium freeze in a single rush.
And dribbling simply amazed with its simplicity and elegance.
The fans at the stadium were saying: "Yes, he handles the ball with his feet more dexterously than I do with my hands with a spoon!".
He opened a new understanding of the game: what Pele did on the field used to be considered fantastic, rather than incredible.
Many goals have become a football legend, such as the goal scored in 1961 against Fluminense at the Maracana Stadium - after Pele beat the entire opposing team alone on the way from his own penalty area was called the "goal of the century" and immortalized by installing a memorial sign on the Maracana .
Behind the simplicity and elegance of the king of football were grueling workouts.
And this is despite the fact that Pele is simply gifted by God with both physical data and talent.
Edson was constantly working on himself he said that there is no limit to perfection.
Thanks to training, he could run a hundred meters a little worse than professional track and field athletes (he ran out of 11 seconds), was very bouncy (with a height of 173 cm, he jumped up to 2 meters high), owned both his left and right leg equally, had, as mentioned above, excellent dribbling – a kind of "chip" of the Brazilian, and this dribbling was combined with high speed movement with the ball, as well as non standard actions that more than once put recognized masters of defense in a dead end.
Moreover, as eyewitnesses say (unfortunately, there are not so many videos with the game of the great football player), Pele was a super universal – he could play in any position except the goalkeeper, and from there hold the ball and score a goal!
And with this baggage, Pele went to Sweden for the first time in 1958 for the World Cup, where he showed himself in all his glory.
However, goals were not given to him until the quarterfinals with Wales, where the master scored the same goal, and the winning one.
And then, as they say, it started in the semifinals, a hat trick for the French, and in the final – a double for the hosts of the tournament.
Pele made Brazil a champion for the first time!
At the World Championships in 1962 and 1966, he was unable to fully express himself on the field due to injuries.
The final tournament of 1970 (the fourth in Pele's sports biography) was a triumph – for him personally, and for the entire team, whose composition at this championship is considered by many experts to be the strongest in the history of the Brazilian national team.
The Brazilian football players who won the Jules Rimet prize for the third time got the right to keep it forever, and Pele, after the victory of the national team in Mexico, became the only three time world football champion in history.
It is symbolic that it was Pele who scored the hundredth goal of the Brazilian national team in Mexico for the entire time of its participation in the final tournaments of the World Cup.
He himself played 14 matches at these tournaments and scored 12 goals.
In total, in his performances for the national team (92 matches), he scored 97 goals against opponents – an achievement that still remains unsurpassed.
After Santos, Pele played for several years in the "Cosmos" in the NASL championship.
He did this in order to improve his financial affairs.
Surprisingly, after the end of the performance for "Santos", the master practically had no funds left for living.
Then an American club turned up to him, offering a good contract.
On October 1, 1977, Pele, the king of football, played his last, farewell match against his beloved Santos.
It is established that during his performances, Pele scored 1289 goals, made 92 hat tricks, 30 poker games (4 goals per match), at least 6 matches where he scored 5 goals, and even one match where he scored 8 times a game with Botafogo.
Despite the fact that Pele has never played in Europe, the recognition of this athlete was phenomenal – 93% of all people on the planet Earth.
No athlete had such popularity both before Pele and after.
After completing his career, the King of football showed his acting talent and starred in several films, and even wrote an autobiographical book for the football population, which prompted hundreds of illiterate Brazilian boys to learn to read in order to touch the great.
In 1999, the IOC named Pele the greatest athlete of the century (although he never participated in the OI), and FIFA recognized him as the best football player of the XX century.
At the moment, Edson Arantis do Nascimento or simply Pele is engaged in the promotion of football, and sports in general, is the Minister of Sports of Brazil, and also makes good money by having his own business.
And really, a talented person is talented in everything!
Career Milestones
CLUB EVENTS
▪ Winner of the Brazilian Cup: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965.
▪ Winner of the Robertao Cup: 1968.
▪ Winner of the Paulista League: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973.
▪ Winner of the Rio Sao Paulo tournament: 1959, 1963, 1964.
▪ Winner of the Copa Libertadores: 1962, 1963.
▪ Winner of the Intercontinental Cup: 1962, 1963.
▪ Winner of the Intercontinental Champions Super Cup: 1968.
▪ NASL Champion: 1977.
IN THE NATIONAL TEAM
▪ World Champion: 1958, 1962, 1970
▪ Rock Cup Winner: 1957, 1963
PERSONAL
▪ The only three time world champion as a current football player.
▪ Pele scored 12 goals in the final stages of the FIFA World Cups.
▪ On November 19, 1969, Pele scored his 1000th goal from the penalty spot at the Maracana Stadium.
During his entire football career, Pele scored 1,289 goals in 1,363 games.
In 92 matches for the Brazilian national team, Pele scored 77 goals.
▪ South American Footballer of the Year, 1973
▪ Included in the FIFA 100 list.
▪ Ranks first in the List of the greatest football players of the XX century according to the World Soccer magazine.
▪ Athlete of the Century according to the IOC version: 1999.
▪ FIFA Player of the Century.
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