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If you would use the word perfect, Pele almost is there. He was the greatest soccer player in the history
of this game
I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music." Arrogant, pompous words. Except when they are
spoken by Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the Brazilian genius known throughout the football world as Pele.
A veteran of four World Cups, scorer of 1,283 first-class goals - 12 of them in World Cup final tournaments
- a member of those magical Brazilian squads that won soccer's greatest prize in 1958, 1962 and 1970.
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Moments ...
At 15, Pele signed his first contract - for $10 a month in 1956 with his club team, Santos.
After Pele bought a gas stove for his mother, she thanked him profusely and then told everyone to keep secret the fact
that they couldn't use it. Their town did not have the capability to pipe gas into homes.
In 1959, Pele had his highest season total with 129 goals.
On March 5, 1961, Pele scored "The Goal of the Plaque." Collecting the ball in his own penalty area, he beat the entire
Fluminense team, dribbling the entire way without passing before scoring. A plaque at the entrance of Maracana Stadium in
Rio de Janeiro was put up honoring the goal as the "most beautiful" ever in its history.
Pele led Santos to two Intercontinental Cup titles, in 1962 and 1963. In the 1962 final against Portuguese club Benfica,
Pele scored a hat trick in a 5-2 win.
At a match in 1969 in Colombia, Pele was kicked out of the game for arguing with the referee. He was quickly ushered back
onto the field because the police feared a riot.
Pele scored five goals in a game six times, four goals on 30 occasions and a hat trick 92 times.
During his time as Minister of Sport from 1994-98, Pele championed Brazilian player's rights, introducing the Pele Law.
The law went into effect in 2001.
An amateur musician and composer, Pele has recorded his songs, accompanying himself on the guitar.
In 1999, the world's national Olympic committees voted Pele the Athlete of the Century - even though he didn't participate
in any Olympics.
The French sports magazine L'Equipe named Pele its Sportsman of the Century.
In 1966 Pele married Rose Cholby. They had three children before they divorced in 1978.
Pele's son, Edinho, followed in his father's footsteps by playing for his father's longtime club team, Santos. There was
one major difference - Edinho was a goalkeeper.
Pele remarried, in 1994 to Assiria Seixas Lemeos, and they have twins, a boy Joshua and a girl Celeste.
Pele also is the father of at least two other daughters out of wedlock.
This site talk about the best player in the worled and Pele is the king so he will be one of them.
You can fined a lot of information about the best player and has many links of sport and it hase many ads which
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http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/p/cp/bra/pele.html
This site talk about classic football anf classic player and our player Pele one of them and we call classic football for
years 1970-1980
This is the official site for the 2006 worldcup will be in Germany and it's realy nice site
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