Pele
Pelé was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the son of Fluminense footballer Dondinho. He was the elder of two siblings. He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison His parents decided to remove the "i" and call him "Edson", but there was a mistake on the birth certificate, leading to many documents to show his name as Edison, not Edson as he is called.
His family gave him the nickname "Dico". He did not get the nickname Pele until he started with his school, where he used to pronounce the name of the local Vasco da Gama goalkeeper Bile as Pile. A classmate gave him the nickname Pele. Edson Arantes do Nascimento was known as Pele a football player from Brazil he was born on the 23rd of October 1940 Três Corações, Brazil. Pelé played as an attacking midfielder on the football pitch and preferred his right foot. Pelé is considered to be the best football player of his time. He won three FIFA World Cups and he was named the FIFA co-Player of the Century in 1999. When he was 15. He scored four goals on his league debut in a match against FC Corinthians on September 7, 1956. His first World Cup finals goal came against Wales in the 1958 quarter-final. Brazil won 1-0. On November 21, 1964, Pele scored 8 goals as Santos ran riot against Botafogo which lead to an 11-0 victory. Brazil never lost a game when Pele and Garrincha played together. When Pele was a child he joined a club coached by Waldemar de Brito. De Brito was a former player in the Brazilian national soccer team. He was the one to convince Pele’s parents to let him leave their house and try to get him into the santos[1] Football Club when he was only 15. In Brazil, he is often called “Pérola Negra”, which means Black Pearl. Pele Appeared in several movies in the 1970s and 1980s. pelé impressed during the trials and signed for Santos Football Club. He started practicing with the regular football players of the club. He scored his first professional goal when he was 15. He was selected to play for the Brazilian national football team as he led the goal scoring charts in the league https://cdn.britannica.com/38/211838-050-3D3D2391/Pele-Brazilian-soccer-player-athlete-circa-1970s.jpg The footballing world first witnessed the talent of Pelé in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He scored a hat-trick against France in the semi-final and then netted a couple of goals in the final against the host nation, Sweden in a 5-2 win. Pelé had the most goals scored for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At club level, he is Santos' all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals from 659 games. Pele scored 1,283 first-class goals, including 77 for Brazil. Pele scored Brazil's 100th World Cup goal with his head. Pele is fifth on the all-time World Cup goalscorers list with 12 - and the second highest-placed Brazilian behind Ronaldo. He actually scored 92 hat-tricks, and scored four goals on 31 occasions, five on six occasions, and once scored eight in one match. Pele usually didn’t like penalties Pele once said: "A penalty is a cowardly way to score. Since April 1994 Pelé has been married to psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas.
I really admire Pele’s effort in his career. he use to play football with socks stuck together because he was poor as a child but that didn’t stop him from becoming 1 of the best football player of his time. . Pele has never liked his nickname, he says it sounds like "baby-talk". Pele has helped raise millions of pounds for charitable causes including Great Ormond Street and Harlem Street Soccer. Pelé announced his retirement in 1974 but in 1975 agreed to a three-year, $7-million contract with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League and to promote the game in the United States. He retired after leading the Cosmos to the league championship in 1977.
Pelé was the recipient of the International Peace Award in 1978. In 1980 he was named Athlete of the Century by the French sports publication L’Equipe, and he received the same honor in 1999 from the International Olympic Committee. In 2014 the Pelé Museum opened in Santos, Brazil. In addition to his accomplishments in sports, he published several best-selling autobiographies and starred in several successful documentary and semi-documentary films. He also composed numerous musical pieces, including the soundtrack for the film Pelé (1977). In conclusion, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, or as we say Pele was the greatest football player of his time. He wasn’t the richest but he still believed in his self and that’s how he managed to become the greatest football player of all time .