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Pelé : 

Pelé By Emmett Salzer

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Pelé was born October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil. His full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento. He grew up in poverty. Tres Coracoes

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Pelé grew up playing soccer. He would play with his friends, but since he was poor, they had no cleats, and their soccer ball was a big sock stuffed with newspaper and rags. Their fields were abandoned lots and streets with no goals. His mother did not want him to play, because he might have gotten injured.

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When Pelé was around 11, a local businessman (Ze Leite) saw him and his friends playing and got the Bauru Athletic Club to give them used soccer shoes.Then, under a new name, Ameriquinha, and with Ze Leite as their coach, they entered a city wide tournament and Won!

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When Pelé was 13, Bauru Athletic Club asked him if he would play for their junior team. His coach was once the captain of Brazil’s national team. He taught Pelé many things, including the bicycle kick, which Pelé would soon make famous. Pelé’s talent was clear to anyone who watched him and by the time he was 15, one of the teams from Brazil’s largest city, Rio de Janeiro, sent somebody to ask Pelé to play for their club, Bangu, but his mom said no.

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She finally agreed to let him play for another club in a smaller city, called Santos. When he was16, Pelé signed his first professional contract, and he and his family were excited to find that he was making 75$ a month. In Red:Santos

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The next summer, in a tournament in Rio de Janiero, he scored six goals in four games. Soon after, he was asked to play for the Brazil national team. He played in a few tournaments with them and was the leading scorer in the league that Santos played in, he was only 17. While still 17, he was picked to play on the team that Brazil sent to the World Cup.

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The World Cup is a tournament in which more than 140 countries compete to see who has the best soccer team. It is held once every 4 years.

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In 1958 Pelé led Brazil to victory in the World Cup. In that tournament, he scored six goals, one of which became world-famous, a backwards bicycle kick. In the next 17 years, he would play in several World Cup tournaments, and he would become the only person to play on 3 teams that won the World Cup.

Pelé Facts : 

Pelé Facts Pelé scored a record of 1280 goals throughout his career. Pelé would not endorse any products that could have caused harm to anyone (such as tobacco and alcohol). Pelé has very good peripheral vision and a genius IQ. Pelé finds geometry and chess very helpful to his game. Even though Pelé stopped schooling at 10, he later completed high school and college. In 1970, 900 million viewers watched his last World Cup game on television.

My Sources : 

My Sources Pelé, by James Buckley Jr., Lives of the Athletes, by Kathleen Krull, My Life and the Beautiful Game, by Pelé with Robert L. Fish, And Google videos (go to http://drop.io/pelevideos to see some).