"Pele is king of the soccer field. To be king of your kitchen, use Crestfield Wax Paper."
Posted on 12/29/2022 11:09:11 AM PST by shadowlands1960
Edson Arantes do Nascimento remembered exactly when he first saw his father weep. It was 1950 and Brazil, appearing in soccer’s World Cup for the first time, had just been beaten by Uruguay.
“My father was crying with a lot of Brazilians,” the man better known as Pelé remembered. “My father used to say, men should be strong. Men doesn’t cry. Then I saw my father cry when Brazil lost the game.
“Then I told him, ‘Father, don’t worry. I’m going to win a World Cup for you.’ … [Six] years later, I was in Sweden with Brazil and Brazil won the World Cup. I was 17 years old. That was a gift from God. I don’t know why I said it, why I promised it to my father.”
Pelé, the Brazilian soccer star who led his country’s national team to that World Cup victory in 1956 and who, in the 1960s and 70s, rivaled Muhammad Ali as the world’s most popular and recognizable athlete, died Thursday at a Sao Paulo hospital. He was 82, and had been in poor health for the last several years as he battled cancer and what the hospital described in a statement this week as “kidney and cardiac dysfunctions.”
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"Pele is king of the soccer field. To be king of your kitchen, use Crestfield Wax Paper."
How much better was this guy than George Best? Or Eusebio?
CA....
I would put Pele first.
It’s a bit unfair to Best and even Cruyff, because they never won a WC. But I would have those two and then Maradona.
Maybe I would put Messi 5th on the list.
This was from the movie Victory. Click link to view.
https://youtu.be/1GHF6GfB4dY
If Ferenc Puskás didn’t have to be in a country behind the Iron Curtain, he probably would have also gotten more consideration for being the GOAT.
I would agree with that statement wholeheartedly. As I said on another thread, Pele made me pay attention to, and then love, the beautiful game.
Rest In Peace.
Great clip. Thanks.
Now Brazil has crybabies like Neymar representing them.
I note he got a red card yesterday at his first game back for PSG for diving.
LOL, figures.
I forget if I posted it to you, but my only Pele soccer viewing is Victory! with Pele, Stallone, and Caine...
I remember that movie. The great Polish player Kaz Deyna (RIP) was also one of the players in that movie.
Died at 41 y/o, too young.
Good movie.
should be
"[Eight] years later"
Journalists can't even get simple facts correct.
Correction, 5 first half, 7-1 overall.
Legend is right.
He must be great, when even non-fans of the sport know who he is.
RIP.
Adam Sandler had a comedy album in 1993, and one of the skits was Right Field. He’s awful, and at one point he kicks the baseball, causing a frustrated teammate to yell sarcastically, “Way to kick it in, Pele!”
I thought it was so cool that Pele had such a legacy - he was being referenced over 20 years after his retirement, and young people like me who didn’t even follow soccer got it.
That to me is equivalent to a high-school basketball player scoring 30 points and having a triple-double in games 5, 6, and 7 of the NBA final series.
Yeah I remember that debacle too. Didn’t watch it with any Brasilians though....
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