G.O.A.T.
RIP Pelé.
The real GOAT, as opposed to Lebron.
R.I.P. G.O.A.T.
Same for me. Pele made me pay attention to and then love the “beautiful” game.
Rest In Peace, Pele, the Greatest soccer player in my lifetime.
Oh no!!! Putin again???
RIP Pele.
He seemed like a genuinely nice man and he was certainly a once in a generation talent.
Had the pleasure of seeing him play against the Rowdies here in Tampa when he was with the New York Cosmos 48 years ago. RIP Pele.
God bless him.
See you in Heaven someday Pele. We’ll kick the ball around a bit...
Year signs:
So, the simplest acronym for this year—תשפג—is “May it be a Year of Great Wonder” (תְּהֵא שְׁנַת פֶּלֶא גָּדוֹל). The “Great Wonder” that we are anticipating this year is the coming of Mashiach...
While the name Pelé is spelled with a hei at the end [פלה], versus the pele [פֶּלֶא] that spells "wonder", the blessing matches right up in pronunciation and the description of being great.
On that note, what happens if the year blessing is written with the Great Pelé, the one spelled with a hei...
תהא שנת פלה גדול (1314)
If that number doesn't ring a bell, here's the 1314 name that the whole world knows:
ארצות הברית
Yet everyone seems so grim in that place,
בתוך הבקעה והיא מלאה עצמות
= 1314
in the midst of the valley that was full of bones
(Eze 37:1)
Gee, I can't imagine why!
Three Amigos - My Little Buttercup
In a cottage built for two,
I'll leave the light on for you. ~ EZ
When I was visiting colleges as a high school senior, one of them bragged that their soccer coach was “Pelé’s brother”. The poor man didn’t even have a name!
Victory w/pele, Stallone, Michael Caine is a great movie... recommend it
My brother in law was in the World Cup for Yugslavia, specifically Croation. He played against Pele as a defenseman and held him scoreless, though they lost the game.
I really am not a fan of soccer, but he could run about 10.5 in the 100 yard dash at 38 or so, and would steal the basketball from us playing with his foot, and make a basket. He was a helluva athlete. He passed just before christmas. It was his touch with greatness, besides being first cousin with George Cuvalo..changed to Chuvalo for Canadian purposes.
He said that Pele’ was just as great as his legend.
He was an ambassador to Soccer and through his golden personality made it palatable even for the USA.
MUI he invented the “bicycle kick.”
Okay. He’s dead. But can he still vote in Brazil?
I went to Veterans’ Stadium in Philly when Pele was playing for the NY Cosmos in the NASL. Practically no one in the stands was there because of the Philadelphia Atoms.
The only similar experience I have had is when the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians were spring training in Winter Haven, and Michael Jordan was trying to be a White Sox: there were 9,000 at the Indians-White Sox game until Jordan was pulled in the fifth, at which point 8,000 left.
Many “superstars” could learn a lot from him. A good gracious man.