Love it! Life of pele
Rarely has it been so simple to describe football as a phenomenon. Saying “
*Pelé*” sums it all up and doesn’t need translation anywhere on the
planet. *Three
world national titles, two club titles and 1283 career goals *could end any
comparison, but Brazil’s genius was much more than that. It represents the
beauty of the game, the wonder of the show. At 82 years old, and after
months of fighting against a delicate illness that deteriorated his health,
this Thursday, December 29, he died at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São
Paulo. The eternal king is now a legend.
*Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele) *was born on October 23, 1940 in Tres
Corazones, He had dropped out of school in the fourth grade, with very poor
grades. He also sold cold drinks at train stations, polished shoes and was
given the nickname of “*Gasolina*” when he was employed at a service
station, but he didn’t like it. It also carried the one of “*Pelé*”,
although there are two versions for its origin. One says that since his
mother was tired of him only being interested in football, she told him “if
you only dedicate yourself to playing soccer, you’re going to be a pelé (a
nobody, a wimp) all your life”. The other indicates that he came from the
“peeled” ones, the fields where he played with his friends in Baurú.
Until today, it was the only time that a South American team won a World
Cup in Europe. He was 17 years old and the French magazine *L’Equipe* awarded
him the title of “*King of Football*” and he was forever “*O Rei*”. This
allowed him, upon returning to Brazil, to renegotiate his contract with
Santos for a premium of 22,000 dollars, a house and a Volkswagen car.
However, he was on the verge of going bankrupt due to bad business and the
only thing left was to return to football. He had offers from Juventus,
Milan. Real Madrid and America from Mexico but the *New York Cosmos* had
been behind him for three years through its president, Cliv Toye. There was
no pressure and Pelé preferred that at 35 years old. It was presented on
June 11, 1975. His coach would be Gordon Bradley, whom he had already faced
once. His debut was a week later in the NASL against the Toronto Metros.
With the Brazilian national team he won three world championships, in 1958,
1962 and 1970
He was named *Knight of Honor of the British Empire*, Citizen of the World
by the UN and is UNESCO’s ambassador for Ecology and Environment, and
Sports Ambassador at the Davos Forum (2006).
*In cinema*, he worked on “Escape to Victory” (1981) together with Bobby
Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna and actors such as Michael Caine,
Max Von Sydow and Sylvester Stallone, and was also an actor on TV.
*His love for music* led him to compose around five hundred songs and
record albums, although some remain anonymous “because I never wanted my
abilities to be compared”. He is named in more than a hundred songs around
the world.
He married *Rosemeri Cholbi* in 1966 but divorced in 1978. It was said that
with the continuous traveling on tours, they spent little time together. He
had four children, Kelly, Cristina, Edinho (the Santos goalkeeper who was
arrested in 2005 for drug trafficking and is now serving a long sentence
for laundering money from drug trafficking) and Jennifer. In 1994 he
married again, to Assiria Seixas Lemos and had twins Josua and Celeste.
He had *affairs with Xuxa* and with two beauty queens: Miss Brazil 1986
(Deisa Nunes de Souza) and Miss Brazil 1989 (Flavia Cavalcanti).
He had to recognize another extramarital daughter through Justice, Sandra
Regina Machado, who died of cancer in 2006, and another one is also
attributed to him.
Although he had several health problems over the last decade, *including a
hip problem* that made it difficult for him to move, it was during the last
few years that his condition became complicated as a result of the
discovery of a *colon tumor*
“When a person is well known and becomes idolized, they tend to forget
where they came from. I say this because when Edson met Pelé, who was six
years old in Baurú, it was Edson who cried, suffered, had problems. Pelé is
immortal, idol. You can go anywhere in the world and if you ask if they
know Pelé, the answer will always be yes, but if you ask who Edson is,
nobody knows, and yet Edson is Pelé's base,” he acknowledged on a
documentary about his life.{Edson and Pele are one and the same}.
No doubt success has only the hard work; but all hard work may not end in
success, because, real success needs some “awe” or “wow” factor unknown.
However the entire life shows , may be a success, tip of the iceberg only.
KR IRS 2423
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 14:52, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> *“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning,
> studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning
> to do.”* – Pele
>
> N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004
>
> *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
> become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to
> a goal, not to people or things "*
>
>
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