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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. …show more content…

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

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