Biography of Pele - The King Of Football

For our young, Brazil soccer is great, because that's what he meant ... us as a natural order of things raised on the success of the football team of Brazil at the World Cup in the 1990s.

But the myth of Brazilian soccer was born much earlier, at a time when football started to become a world of "plague" and there are many who attribute this internalization of the Brazilian soccer team of 50 years, a team that was led to the success of one of the most prominent in sport, the famous footballer Pele.

Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele climbed a steep mountain to live his childhood in a poor family in Brazil, one of the most beloved modern history of sport. His father was a footballer himself, playing for Fluminense in the Brazilian championship and it was natural that the young Pele his father's footsteps in the game would follow.

It was not always known as Pele. Rumor has it that this nickname was given to primary school because he kept misspelling the name of one of his favorite players at the time Vasco da Gama goalkeeper Bile.

His schoolmates gave him this nickname new and particularly amusing to him as he apparently hates, so he hit the classmate who coined the nickname. However, over time, gradually become accustomed and even started keeping and it was not long before everyone knew that football wonderkid as Pele.

Living in poverty, he could not afford soccer equipment, or a football. He shined shoes for extra money that would help him and his friends start a newspaper-filled sock to use as a football. He teamed up with its neighbors in the street Sete de Setembro, and even participated in a youth tournament, where the team has the nickname of "barefoot" because none of the children could not afford to waste their shoes walk (if applicable) on playing football.

Few years later, each team member has worked hard for the extra money for a good pair of shoes and renamed their team Ameriquinha. Participate in youth competitions many Ameriquinha, Pele made a name for himself at a young age for his bravery in goal and top scorer in almost all of these tournaments.

At the tender age of 15 he attracted the attention of one of the biggest teams in Brazil, Santos FC, who offered him a contract and by 16 he was a member of the senior team. He spent most of his career at Santos, since European transfers were not popular back, although 2 years of his career were spent in New York Cosmos, before Pele finally hanged his boots.

Pele made his debut for the Brazilian football team in the same year he debuted the team Santos highest "he had only 16. Incredibly, he was taken to the team World Cup 1958 at the age of 17 and became the youngest player in the league. He even scored a decisive goal in the quarterfinals against Wales, a goal that Brazil has passed this stage and in the semi-finals.

But Pele was saving the best for the finals: Reunion of Sweden scored a beautiful goal he lob the ball past a defender and balls in the net, eventually winning the final of Brazil. After the match ended, the effort and the joy and the pooling of 17 years, Pele could not bear passing the field and medical help.

As a footballer, Pele attended 3 World Cups more between 1962 and 1970, winning the first and last. He was the first player to score in 4 different World Cups and in 1970 he achieved a unique accomplishment, which has encouraged the heights of international soccer: he scored 1000 official goals for club and country.

Although many dispute this record or try to reduce