BANG! Pele shoots it, and it’s a goal! Pele scored his 1,000 goal on November 19, 1969 on a penalty against Vasco da Gama. Every coach said that he had true potential, and he proved it once again. A member of the Brazilian three time world champions, Pele is the greatest soccer player of all time.
He wasn’t the richest kid on block but that didn’t stop him. Edson Arantes do Nascimento was born on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracos, Brazil. He grew up with his brother, Zeca and his sister, Maria. His father, Joao Ramor, was a former soccer player but no where near as successful as Pele would become. The first world cup he saw was in 1950 and he recollects his father crying after Brazil lost to Uruguay. His mother, Celeste Arantes, was an actress and passed away in 1996. He made a “soccer ball” by stuffing a sock with rags and tieing it up with some string and he claims it actually worked pretty well. His friends started calling him Pele from a young age but it’s true origin is unknown.
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He started his professional soccer career at the age of fifteen. Playing for Santos Football Club (Santos FC). In two years, he was already a starter for the Brazilian national team and was playing in the 1958 world cup. Where he scored three goals in the final against Sweden (the host country). He then proceeded to grant Brazil two world cup wins. All the while playing for Santos FC which over time became the “other national team” because they traveled around the globe to play various teams. Once he resigned from Santos FC, he came to America to play for the New York Cosmos where he played till the age of 36. The five foot eight number ten would get 1,283 career goals in his twenty two years of playing because as he famously said himself, “everything is
In order to become famous at soccer you have to be active. As Pele once stated “ success is no accident. It is hard work and perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all love of what you are doing or learning to do.”Pele and his family were poor, they couldn’t afford to buy young Pele a soccer ball so they stuffed a sock for him to play with. He often skipped school to play soccer. After 4th grade he dropped out, He started shining shoes and roasted peanuts for a little bit of money. That still didn’t stop him from playing soccer, he still found a way to play soccer and even made his own team with his friends.
Brazils best soccer player is Pele also known as the best soccer player in the world
Long ago, Pele was born into a family of six daughters and seven sons. According to mythology, her mother was the earth goddess, Haumea, and her father was the dream god, Moemoe. Growing
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Pele's first name is Edison, after the inventor. The nickname Pele, a name he dislikes, was given to him as a schoolboy. Regarded as the greatest soccer player of all time, he was voted athlete of the century by the IOC. Pele has scored more goals for a national team than any other player. He earned the first of his three World Cups at age 17. Our throw pillows bring the legend to your
and ran his own soccer academy. He is now a soccer coach and has been to
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Some more things that happened to Pele was Peles mom had to clean and basically had to be a slave to rich people she had to clean, make food and, do their laundry. Also Peles dad was a janitor for a small hospital and he had to clean dirty toilets most of the time. ¨Since Peles family was poor Pele and his siblings and his friends had to clean or polish shoes or sell peanuts when they came home from school even if it was rainy¨ from Pelé Birth of A Legend. Pele was also kind of in a depression because when his friend died he was so sad he didn't play soccer and he went to work to help his dad and he never talked for a while but that soon
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Pele was born in Três Corações, Brazil (Bio.com). Pele grew up poor and lived in poverty, but that didn't stop him from pursuing his dreams (Bio.com). Pele developed his kicking skills “by kicking a rolled up sock stuffed with rags around the streets of Bauru”; he learned to kick a soccer ball without even having one (Bio.com). Pele took on many unusual jobs to help his family earn a little bit more money (Bio.com). Later in life, Pele found him placed in the Bauru Athletic Club (Bio.com).
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