Personal informationFull name : Edison Arantes do Nascimento
Date of birth : 21 or 23 October 1940
Place of birth : Três Corações, Brazil
Height : 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position : Forward/ Attacking Midfielder,
Youth career :
1952–1956 Bauru
Senior career :
1956–1974 Santos
1975–1977 New York Cosmos
National team :
1957–1971 Brazil
Club career
Santos
In 1956, de Brito took Pelé to Santos, an industrial and port city in the declare of São Paulo, to endeavour out for representative club Santos Futebol Clube telling the directors at Santos that the 15-year-old would be "the largest football performer in the world."
During his time at Santos, Pelé played alongside many endowed players, surrounding Zito, Pepe, and Coutinho; the latter partnered him in more one-two performances, criticizes, and goals.
Pelé organised his debut for Santos in 7 September 1956, scoring one objective in a 7–1 friendly victory through Corinthians.When the 1957 season commenced, Pelé was given a commencing location in the first team and, at the age of just 16, became the seal scorer in the league. Just ten months later signing professionally, the teenager was summoned higher to the Brazil national team. After the World Cup in 1962, affluent European clubs such as Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United endeavoured to pointer the young performer, but the central social family members of Brazil documented Pelé an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.
Pelé won his first principle label with Santos in 1958 as the team won the Campeonato Paulista; Pelé would final view the tournament as seal scorer with an incredible 58 goals, a record that stands today. A year resultant, O Rei would assist the team earn their first victory in the Torneio Rio-São Paulo with a 3-0 through Vasco da Gama. However, Santos was unable to retain the Paulista title. In 1960, Pelé scored 33 objectives to assist his team regain the Campeonato Paulista trophy but hidden out on the Rio-São Paulo tournament later completing in a gloomy 8th place. Another 47 objectives from Pelé saw Santos retain the Campeonato Paulista. The club went on to win the Taça Brasil that same year, crushing Bahia in the finals; Pelé wrapped higher as seal scorer of the tournament with 9 goals. The victory sanctioned Santos to participate in the Copa Libertadores, the bulk prestigious club tournament in the Western hemisphere.
Santos' bulk successful club season commenced in 1962; the team was seeded in Group 1 alongside Cerro Porteño and Deportivo Municipal, winning every fit of their assembly but one (a 1-1 away tie vs Cerro), with Pelé scoring his first objective in a brace against Cerro. Santos defeated Universidad Católica in the semifinals and greeted defending champions Peñarol in the finals in which Pelé scored another brace in the playoff fit to shut higher the first label for a Brazilian club. Pelé wrapped higher as the second best scorer of the competition with 4 goals. That same year, Santos would look after, with success, the Campeonato Brasiliero (with 37 objectives from Pelé), the Taça Brasil (Pelé scoring four objectives in the final series against Botafogo), and win the 1962 Intercontinental Cup (Pelé scoring five objectives in the series).
As the protecting heroic separate population, Santos qualified without thinking to the semifinal point of the 1963 Copa Libertadores. The ballet blanco treated to retain the label in striking fashion later noble victories through Botafogo and Boca Juniors. Pelé alleviated Santos overcome a Botafogo team that contained legends such as Garrincha and Jairzinho with an agonizing last-minute objective in the first leg of the semifinals and bring the fit to 1-1. In the second leg, Pelé effected one of his best shows as a footballer with a hat-trick in the Estádio do Maracanã as Santos crushed Botafogo 0-4 in the second leg. Appearing in their second consecutive final, Santos commenced the series by winning 3-2 in the first leg and defeating the Boca Juniors of José Sanfilippo and Antonio Rattín 1-2 in La Bombonera, with another objective from Pelé, becoming the first (and so far only) Brazilian team to lifting implement the Copa Libertadores in Argentine soil. Pelé wrapped higher the tournament as the topscorer runner-up with 5 goals. Santos hidden the Campeonato Paulista later completing in third location but went on to win the Rio-São Paulo tournament later an noble 0-3 win through Flamengo in the final, with Pelé delivering one objective in the match. Pelé would also assist Santos retain the Intercontinental Cup and the Taça Brasil.
Santos endeavoured to look after their label again in 1964 but they were thoroughly overcame in both legs of the semifinals by Independiente. Santos won again the Campeonato Paulista, with Pelé netting 34 goals. The club also shared the Rio-São Paulo label with Botafogo and win the Taça Brasil for the fourth consecutive year. The Santistas would endeavour to resurge in 1965 by winning, for the 9th time, the Campeonato Paulista and the Taça Brasil. In the 1965 Copa Libertadores, Santos commenced convincingly by winning every fit of their assembly in the first round. In the semifinals, Santos greeted Peñarol in a rematch of the 1962 final. After couple legendary matches, a playoff was was deficient to contravene the tie. Unlike 1962, Peñarol came out on seal and eliminated Santos 2-1. Pelé would, however, final view as the topscorer of the tournament with eight goals. This proved to be the commence of a diminish as Santos went incorrect to retain the Torneio Rio-São Paulo, completing in an embarrassing 9th location (second to last).
In 1966, Pelé and Santos also went incorrect to retain the Taça Brasil as O Rei's objectives weren't enough to prevent a 9-4 routing by Cruzeiro in the final series. Although Santos won the Campeonato Paulista in 1967, 1968 and 1969, Pelé became smaller diagram and smaller diagram a contributing factor to the Santistas now-limited success. On 19 November 1969, Pelé scored his 1000th objective in all competitions. This was a highly looked ahead to moment in Brazil. The objective, summoned popularly O Milésimo (The Thousandth), eventuated in a fit against Vasco da Gama, after Pelé scored from a penalty kick, at the Maracanã Stadium.
Pelé declares that his bulk adorable objective was scored at Rua Javari stadium on a Campeonato Paulista fit against São Paulo rival Juventus on 2 August 1959. As there is no cinema footage of this fit, Pelé petitioned that a computer animation be organised of this actual goal. In March 1961, Pelé scored the gol de placa (goal worthy of a plaque), a objective against Fluminense at the Maracanã which was supposed as so striking that a plaque was commissioned with a dedication to the bulk adorable objective in the history of the Maracanã.
Pelé’s electrifying play and penchant for striking objectives organised him a star round object the world. His team Santos toured internationally in lead to take full gain of his popularity. In 1967, the couple factions fascinated in the Nigerian Civil War equated to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.
New York Cosmos
After the 1972 season (his 17th with Santos), Pelé retired from Brazilian club football even so he persisted to at times suit higher for Santos in official competitive matches. Two years resultant, he came out of semi-retirement to pointer with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL) for the 1975 season. Though well past his main at this point, Pelé is credited with meaningfully enhancing public awareness and spare-time activity in soccer in the United States. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 NASL championship, in his third and final season with the club.
On 1 October 1977, Pelé sealed out his legendary career in an exhibition fit between the Cosmos and Santos. Santos arrived in New York and New Jersey later at one time defeating the Seattle Sounders 2–0. The fit was played in front of a size crowd at Giants Stadium and was televised in the United States on ABC's Wide World of Sports as well as as prolonged as the world. Pelé's male parent and wife both attended the match. Pelé gave a brief pre-match speech during which he petitioned the crowd to say the word "love" with him three times. He played the first half for the Cosmos and the second half for Santos. Reynaldo scored the first objective for Santos, kicking the ball into the net later it had deflected off the crossbar. Pelé afterward scored his final objective on a lead loose kick, supplying the insist the ball past the diving Santos goalkeeper. At halftime, the Cosmos retired Pelé's diagram 10. Pelé given his Cosmos shirt to his male parent, any person who was supplemented to the field by Cosmos captain Werner Roth. During the second half, Cosmos striker Ramon Mifflin, any person who had deposed Pelé after he switched sides at halftime, scored on a deflected pass, and the Cosmos won the fit 2–1. After the fit, Pelé was included within by the Cosmos players, surrounding longtime rival Giorgio Chinaglia, and afterward outpoured round object the field where retaining an American flag in his withdrew hand and a Brazilian flag in his right hand. Pelé was before long lifted by some Cosmos players and carried round object the field.
National team career
Pelé (crouched, second from right to left) and Brazil national team at 1959 Copa America
Pelé's first worldwide fit was a 2–1 defeat against Argentina on 7 July 1957. In that fit, he scored his first objective for Brazil older 16 years and 9 months to become the youngest performer to score in International football.
1958 World Cup
Pelé cries on the shoulder of a peaceful Gilmar, later Brazil win the 1958 Cup.
His first fit in the World Cup was against the USSR in the first throughout of the 1958 FIFA World Cup, on the third game of the Cup, alongside Garrincha, Zito and Vavá. He was the youngest performer of that tournament, and at the time the youngest ever to play in the World Cup. He scored his first World Cup objective against Wales in quarterfinals, the simply objective of the fit, to assist Brazil enhance to semifinals, where becoming the youngest ever World Cup goalscorer at 17 years and 239 days. Against France in the semifinal, Brazil was directing 2–1 at halftime, and afterward Pelé scored a hat-trick, becoming the youngest in World Cup history to do so.
On 19 June 1958 Pelé became the youngest performer to play in a World Cup final match at 17 years and 249 days. He scored couple objectives in the final as Brazil overcome Sweden 5–2. His first objective, a lob through a defender pursued by a precise volley shot, was picked as one of the best objectives in the history of the World Cup. When the fit ended, he surpassed out on the field, and had to be attended by the medical staff. He afterward recovered, and was visibly locked-in by the victory; in shreds as he was being congratulated by his teammates. He wrapped higher the tournament with six objectives in four fits played, tied for second location, behind record-breaker Just Fontaine.
It was in the 1958 World Cup that Pelé started engaging a diagram 10 t-shirt that immortalized him. Recently it is known that the function was the issue of disorganization: the heads didn't send the shirt diagrams of players and it was higher to FIFA to select the diagram 10 shirt to Pele, any person who was a substitute on the occasion. The press of the time cataloged Pelé as the largest discovery of the 1958 Cup.
1962 World Cup
Pelé scuffling for a ball against the Swedish goalkeeper Kalle Svensson during the 1958 World Cup final.
In the first fit of the 1962 World Cup, against Mexico, Pelé augmented the first objective and afterward scored the second one, later a run past four defenders, to go higher 2–0. He injured himself where attempting a long-range shot against Czechoslovakia.This would save him out of the unwind of the tournament, and compelled omnibus Aymoré Moreira to generate his simply lineup modification of the tournament. The substitute was Amarildo, any person who implemented well for the unwind of the tournament. However, it was Garrincha any person who would take the directing role and carry Brazil to their second World Cup title.
1966 World Cup
The 1966 World Cup was tagged, among other item, for the vicious fouling on Pelé, by the Bulgarian and Portuguese defenders. Brazil was eliminated in the first throughout, playing simply three matches. Pelé scored the first objective from a loose kick against Bulgaria, but due to his injury, a issue of persistent fouling by the Bulgarians, he was withdrew out for the second game against Hungary. Brazil hidden that game and Pelé, even so immobile recovering, was brought behind for the terminal essential fit against Portugal. In that game João Morais brutally fouled Pelé, but was sanctioned to continue on field by adjudicator George McCabe. Pelé had to continue in the field limping for the unwind of the game, since substitutes were not sanctioned at that time. After this game he vowed he would not play again in the World Cup, a judgement he would resultant change.
1970 World Cup
Pelé was summoned to the national team in early 1969, he refused at first, but afterward recognised and played in six World Cup qualifying fits, scoring six goals. The 1970 World Cup in Mexico was to be Pelé's last. Brazil's squad for the tournament featured principle modifications in regard to the 1966 squad. Players like Garrincha, Nilton Santos, Valdir Pereira, Djalma Santos, and Gilmar had already retired, but the team, with Pelé, Rivelino, Jairzinho, Gérson, Carlos Alberto Torres, Tostão, and Clodoaldo, is widely examined as one of the largest ever football teams.
In the first fit, against Czechoslovakia, Pelé gave Brazil a 2–1 lead, by chastising Gerson's prolonged surpass with his chest and afterward scoring. In this fit Pelé audaciously tackled to lob goalkeeper Ivo Viktor from the half-way row, simply narrowly nonexistent the Czechoslovak goal. Brazil went on to win the fit, 4–1. In the first half of the fit against England, he virtually scored with a header that was impressively saved by Gordon Banks. In the second half, he augmented Jairzinho for the simply objective of the match. Against Romania, he opened the score on a lead loose kick objective, a forceful assault with the into the open of his right foot. Later on in the fit he scored again to take the score to 3–1. Brazil won by a final score of 3–2. In the quarterfinals against Peru, Brazil won 4–2, with Pelé joining Tostão on for Brazil's third goal. In the semi-finals, Brazil faced Uruguay for the first time since the 1950 World Cup final throughout match. Jairzinho left Brazil frontwards 2–1, and Pelé augmented Rivelino for the 3–1. During that fit, Pelé organised one of his bulk renowned plays. Tostão gave Pelé a through ball, and Uruguay's goalkeeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz took identify of it. The keeper outpoured off of his row to receive the ball in the past Pelé, but Pelé received there first, and without touching the ball, he caused it to go past the keeper, to the latter's withdrew, where Pelé went right. Pelé went round object the goalkeeper and took a shot where turning towards the objective, but he turned in excess as he shot, and the ball drifted just wide of the far post.
Brazil played Italy in the final, with Pelé scoring the opener, with a header through Italian defender Tarcisio Burgnich. He afterward organised augments on Jairzinho's and Carlos Alberto's objectives, the latter one originating later an noble collective play. Brazil won the fit 4–1, saving the Jules Rimet Trophy indefinitely. Burgnich, any person who tagged Pelé during the fit, was quoted expression "I conveyed myself in the past the game, he's organised of skin and bones just like all else — but I was wrong".
Pelé's terminal worldwide fit was on 18 July 1971 against Yugoslavia in Rio de Janeiro. With Pelé on the field, the Brazilian team's record was 67 wins, 14 draws, and 11 losses, and they won three World Cups. Brazil never hidden a fit where fielding both Pelé and Garrincha. The simply worldwide fit Garrincha hidden was against Hungary in 1966, 1–3, which Pelé did not play in because of injury.
South American Championship
Pelé also played in the South American Championship. In the 1959 competition he was seal scorer with eight objectives, as Brazil came second in the tournament.
Family
On 21 February 1966, Pelé married Rosemeri dos Reis Cholby. He has couple daughters Kelly Cristina (13 January 1967) and Jennifer (1978) as well as a son Edson ("Edinho" – tiny Edson, 27 August 1970). The couple divorced in 1978.
Since April 1994 Pelé has been married to psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas, any person who gave birth on 28 September 1996 to twins Joshua and Celeste through fertility treatments.
After football
The bulk notable paddock of Pelé's life since football is his ambassadorial task for various bodies. In 1992, Pelé was appointed a United Nations ambassador for ecology and the environment.
He was awarded Brazil's Gold Medal for very special services to the recreational activities in 1995, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso appointed him to the placement of "Extraordinary Minister for Sport" and he was appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. During this time he planed legislation to diminish corruption in Brazilian football, which became known as the Pelé law. Pelé withdrew his placement in 2001 later he was found fault of involvement in a corruption scandal, even so none has been proved so far. In 1997 he was written an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Pelé scouted for Premier League club Fulham in 2002. He was picked to do the draw for the qualification districts for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.
Pelé has issued some autobiographies, starred in documentary and semi-documentary films and drafted various regular details, surrounding the whole soundtrack for the film Pelé in 1977. He arose, alongside other footballers of the 1960s and 1970s, with Michael Caine, and Sylvester Stallone, in the 1981 film Escape to Victory, come seal an tackled departure from a World War II German POW Camp.
Pelé was guest of honour at the world's oldest football club, Sheffield's 150th day of birth fit v Inter Milan in November 2007. Inter won 5–2 in front of an thankful crowd of virtually 19,000 at Bramall Lane. As component of his visit, Pelé opened an exhibition which included the first public present in 40 years of the original hand written administers of football.
In 2009, he joined with Ubisoft on arcade football game Academy of Champions: Soccer for the Wii and also arose in the game as a omnibus to its players.
On August 1, 2010, Pelé was introduced as the Honorary President of a rebuilt New York Cosmos (2010), aiming to field a team in Major League Soccer.
Honors
Santos
* Copa Libertadores: 1962, 1963
* Campeonato Paulista: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
* Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
* Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa: 1968
* Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966
* Intercontinental Cup: 1962, 1963
* Recopa Intercontinental: 1968
Friendly Club tournaments
* Teresa Herrera Trophy: 1959
* Tournament of Valencia: 1959
* Dr. Mario Echandi Trophy: 1959
* Pentagonal Tournament of Mexico: 1959
* Gialorosso Trophy: 1960
* Tournament of Paris: 1960, 1961
* Tournament of Italy: 1961
* Tournament of Costa Rica: 1961
* Tournament of Caracas: 1965
* Quadrangular Tournament of Buenos Aires: 1965
* Hexagonal Tournament of Chile: 1965, 1970
* Tournament of New York: 1966
* Amazonia Tournament: 1968
* Quadrangular Tournament of Rome/Florence: 1968
* Pentagonal Tournament of Buenos Aires: 1968
* Octagonal Tournament of Chile (Taça Nicolau Moran): 1968
* Tournament of Cuiabá: 1969
* Tournament of Kingstone: 1971
New York Cosmos
* North American Soccer League: 1977
Brazil
* Roca Cup: 1957, 1963
* FIFA World Cup: 1958, 1962, 1970
The count of 32 official team trophies creates him the performer with bulk career titles
Individual
* Santos
o Copa Libertadores seal scorer (1): 1965.
o Campeonato Paulista seal scorer (11): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973.
* Brazil
o Copa América seal scorer (1): 1959.
* BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality:
o Winner (1): 1970
* FIFA World Cup (Best Young Player):
o Winner (1): 1958
* FIFA World Cup (Silver Boot): 1958
* FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 1958
* FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (Best Player)
o Winner (1): 1970
* Athlete of the Century, elected by world wide journalists, poll by French daily L'Equipe: 1981
* South American Footballer of the Year: 1973
* Inducted into the American National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1993.
* Knight Commander of the British Empire: 1997
* In 1989 DPR Korea liberated a postage stamp representing Pelé.
* Athlete of the Century, by Reuters News Agency: 1999
* Athlete of the Century, elected by International Olympic Committee: 1999
* UNICEF Football Player of the Century: 1999
* Time Magazine One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century: 1999
* FIFA Player of the Century : 2000 (view : http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/players/player=63869/bio.html )
* Football Player of the Century, elected by France Football's Golden Ball Winners : 1999
* Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
* South America Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
* Laureus World Sports Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from South African President Nelson Mandela: 2000
In December 2000, Pelé and Maradona shared the prize of FIFA Player of the Century by FIFA. The award was originally denoted to be grounded upon votes in a web poll, but later it became noticeable that it the darling Diego Maradona, many onlookers complained that the Internet nature of the poll would have meant a skewed demographic of younger fans any person who would have supposed Maradona play, but not Pelé. FIFA afterward appointed a "Family of Football" tribunal of FIFA constituents to decide the winner of the award. The tribunal chose Pelé. Since Maradona was winning the Internet poll, however, it was decided he and Pelé ought portion the award.
* International Olympic Committee "Athlete of the Century"
* BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award:
o Winner (1): 2005
A consensus of media and guru polls position Pelé as the largest footballer of all time
Date of birth : 21 or 23 October 1940
Place of birth : Três Corações, Brazil
Height : 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position : Forward/ Attacking Midfielder,
Youth career :
1952–1956 Bauru
Senior career :
1956–1974 Santos
1975–1977 New York Cosmos
National team :
1957–1971 Brazil
Club career
Santos
In 1956, de Brito took Pelé to Santos, an industrial and port city in the declare of São Paulo, to endeavour out for representative club Santos Futebol Clube telling the directors at Santos that the 15-year-old would be "the largest football performer in the world."
During his time at Santos, Pelé played alongside many endowed players, surrounding Zito, Pepe, and Coutinho; the latter partnered him in more one-two performances, criticizes, and goals.
Pelé organised his debut for Santos in 7 September 1956, scoring one objective in a 7–1 friendly victory through Corinthians.When the 1957 season commenced, Pelé was given a commencing location in the first team and, at the age of just 16, became the seal scorer in the league. Just ten months later signing professionally, the teenager was summoned higher to the Brazil national team. After the World Cup in 1962, affluent European clubs such as Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United endeavoured to pointer the young performer, but the central social family members of Brazil documented Pelé an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.
Pelé won his first principle label with Santos in 1958 as the team won the Campeonato Paulista; Pelé would final view the tournament as seal scorer with an incredible 58 goals, a record that stands today. A year resultant, O Rei would assist the team earn their first victory in the Torneio Rio-São Paulo with a 3-0 through Vasco da Gama. However, Santos was unable to retain the Paulista title. In 1960, Pelé scored 33 objectives to assist his team regain the Campeonato Paulista trophy but hidden out on the Rio-São Paulo tournament later completing in a gloomy 8th place. Another 47 objectives from Pelé saw Santos retain the Campeonato Paulista. The club went on to win the Taça Brasil that same year, crushing Bahia in the finals; Pelé wrapped higher as seal scorer of the tournament with 9 goals. The victory sanctioned Santos to participate in the Copa Libertadores, the bulk prestigious club tournament in the Western hemisphere.
Santos' bulk successful club season commenced in 1962; the team was seeded in Group 1 alongside Cerro Porteño and Deportivo Municipal, winning every fit of their assembly but one (a 1-1 away tie vs Cerro), with Pelé scoring his first objective in a brace against Cerro. Santos defeated Universidad Católica in the semifinals and greeted defending champions Peñarol in the finals in which Pelé scored another brace in the playoff fit to shut higher the first label for a Brazilian club. Pelé wrapped higher as the second best scorer of the competition with 4 goals. That same year, Santos would look after, with success, the Campeonato Brasiliero (with 37 objectives from Pelé), the Taça Brasil (Pelé scoring four objectives in the final series against Botafogo), and win the 1962 Intercontinental Cup (Pelé scoring five objectives in the series).
As the protecting heroic separate population, Santos qualified without thinking to the semifinal point of the 1963 Copa Libertadores. The ballet blanco treated to retain the label in striking fashion later noble victories through Botafogo and Boca Juniors. Pelé alleviated Santos overcome a Botafogo team that contained legends such as Garrincha and Jairzinho with an agonizing last-minute objective in the first leg of the semifinals and bring the fit to 1-1. In the second leg, Pelé effected one of his best shows as a footballer with a hat-trick in the Estádio do Maracanã as Santos crushed Botafogo 0-4 in the second leg. Appearing in their second consecutive final, Santos commenced the series by winning 3-2 in the first leg and defeating the Boca Juniors of José Sanfilippo and Antonio Rattín 1-2 in La Bombonera, with another objective from Pelé, becoming the first (and so far only) Brazilian team to lifting implement the Copa Libertadores in Argentine soil. Pelé wrapped higher the tournament as the topscorer runner-up with 5 goals. Santos hidden the Campeonato Paulista later completing in third location but went on to win the Rio-São Paulo tournament later an noble 0-3 win through Flamengo in the final, with Pelé delivering one objective in the match. Pelé would also assist Santos retain the Intercontinental Cup and the Taça Brasil.
Santos endeavoured to look after their label again in 1964 but they were thoroughly overcame in both legs of the semifinals by Independiente. Santos won again the Campeonato Paulista, with Pelé netting 34 goals. The club also shared the Rio-São Paulo label with Botafogo and win the Taça Brasil for the fourth consecutive year. The Santistas would endeavour to resurge in 1965 by winning, for the 9th time, the Campeonato Paulista and the Taça Brasil. In the 1965 Copa Libertadores, Santos commenced convincingly by winning every fit of their assembly in the first round. In the semifinals, Santos greeted Peñarol in a rematch of the 1962 final. After couple legendary matches, a playoff was was deficient to contravene the tie. Unlike 1962, Peñarol came out on seal and eliminated Santos 2-1. Pelé would, however, final view as the topscorer of the tournament with eight goals. This proved to be the commence of a diminish as Santos went incorrect to retain the Torneio Rio-São Paulo, completing in an embarrassing 9th location (second to last).
In 1966, Pelé and Santos also went incorrect to retain the Taça Brasil as O Rei's objectives weren't enough to prevent a 9-4 routing by Cruzeiro in the final series. Although Santos won the Campeonato Paulista in 1967, 1968 and 1969, Pelé became smaller diagram and smaller diagram a contributing factor to the Santistas now-limited success. On 19 November 1969, Pelé scored his 1000th objective in all competitions. This was a highly looked ahead to moment in Brazil. The objective, summoned popularly O Milésimo (The Thousandth), eventuated in a fit against Vasco da Gama, after Pelé scored from a penalty kick, at the Maracanã Stadium.
Pelé declares that his bulk adorable objective was scored at Rua Javari stadium on a Campeonato Paulista fit against São Paulo rival Juventus on 2 August 1959. As there is no cinema footage of this fit, Pelé petitioned that a computer animation be organised of this actual goal. In March 1961, Pelé scored the gol de placa (goal worthy of a plaque), a objective against Fluminense at the Maracanã which was supposed as so striking that a plaque was commissioned with a dedication to the bulk adorable objective in the history of the Maracanã.
Pelé’s electrifying play and penchant for striking objectives organised him a star round object the world. His team Santos toured internationally in lead to take full gain of his popularity. In 1967, the couple factions fascinated in the Nigerian Civil War equated to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.
New York Cosmos
After the 1972 season (his 17th with Santos), Pelé retired from Brazilian club football even so he persisted to at times suit higher for Santos in official competitive matches. Two years resultant, he came out of semi-retirement to pointer with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL) for the 1975 season. Though well past his main at this point, Pelé is credited with meaningfully enhancing public awareness and spare-time activity in soccer in the United States. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 NASL championship, in his third and final season with the club.
On 1 October 1977, Pelé sealed out his legendary career in an exhibition fit between the Cosmos and Santos. Santos arrived in New York and New Jersey later at one time defeating the Seattle Sounders 2–0. The fit was played in front of a size crowd at Giants Stadium and was televised in the United States on ABC's Wide World of Sports as well as as prolonged as the world. Pelé's male parent and wife both attended the match. Pelé gave a brief pre-match speech during which he petitioned the crowd to say the word "love" with him three times. He played the first half for the Cosmos and the second half for Santos. Reynaldo scored the first objective for Santos, kicking the ball into the net later it had deflected off the crossbar. Pelé afterward scored his final objective on a lead loose kick, supplying the insist the ball past the diving Santos goalkeeper. At halftime, the Cosmos retired Pelé's diagram 10. Pelé given his Cosmos shirt to his male parent, any person who was supplemented to the field by Cosmos captain Werner Roth. During the second half, Cosmos striker Ramon Mifflin, any person who had deposed Pelé after he switched sides at halftime, scored on a deflected pass, and the Cosmos won the fit 2–1. After the fit, Pelé was included within by the Cosmos players, surrounding longtime rival Giorgio Chinaglia, and afterward outpoured round object the field where retaining an American flag in his withdrew hand and a Brazilian flag in his right hand. Pelé was before long lifted by some Cosmos players and carried round object the field.
National team career
Pelé (crouched, second from right to left) and Brazil national team at 1959 Copa America
Pelé's first worldwide fit was a 2–1 defeat against Argentina on 7 July 1957. In that fit, he scored his first objective for Brazil older 16 years and 9 months to become the youngest performer to score in International football.
1958 World Cup
Pelé cries on the shoulder of a peaceful Gilmar, later Brazil win the 1958 Cup.
His first fit in the World Cup was against the USSR in the first throughout of the 1958 FIFA World Cup, on the third game of the Cup, alongside Garrincha, Zito and Vavá. He was the youngest performer of that tournament, and at the time the youngest ever to play in the World Cup. He scored his first World Cup objective against Wales in quarterfinals, the simply objective of the fit, to assist Brazil enhance to semifinals, where becoming the youngest ever World Cup goalscorer at 17 years and 239 days. Against France in the semifinal, Brazil was directing 2–1 at halftime, and afterward Pelé scored a hat-trick, becoming the youngest in World Cup history to do so.
On 19 June 1958 Pelé became the youngest performer to play in a World Cup final match at 17 years and 249 days. He scored couple objectives in the final as Brazil overcome Sweden 5–2. His first objective, a lob through a defender pursued by a precise volley shot, was picked as one of the best objectives in the history of the World Cup. When the fit ended, he surpassed out on the field, and had to be attended by the medical staff. He afterward recovered, and was visibly locked-in by the victory; in shreds as he was being congratulated by his teammates. He wrapped higher the tournament with six objectives in four fits played, tied for second location, behind record-breaker Just Fontaine.
It was in the 1958 World Cup that Pelé started engaging a diagram 10 t-shirt that immortalized him. Recently it is known that the function was the issue of disorganization: the heads didn't send the shirt diagrams of players and it was higher to FIFA to select the diagram 10 shirt to Pele, any person who was a substitute on the occasion. The press of the time cataloged Pelé as the largest discovery of the 1958 Cup.
1962 World Cup
Pelé scuffling for a ball against the Swedish goalkeeper Kalle Svensson during the 1958 World Cup final.
In the first fit of the 1962 World Cup, against Mexico, Pelé augmented the first objective and afterward scored the second one, later a run past four defenders, to go higher 2–0. He injured himself where attempting a long-range shot against Czechoslovakia.This would save him out of the unwind of the tournament, and compelled omnibus Aymoré Moreira to generate his simply lineup modification of the tournament. The substitute was Amarildo, any person who implemented well for the unwind of the tournament. However, it was Garrincha any person who would take the directing role and carry Brazil to their second World Cup title.
1966 World Cup
The 1966 World Cup was tagged, among other item, for the vicious fouling on Pelé, by the Bulgarian and Portuguese defenders. Brazil was eliminated in the first throughout, playing simply three matches. Pelé scored the first objective from a loose kick against Bulgaria, but due to his injury, a issue of persistent fouling by the Bulgarians, he was withdrew out for the second game against Hungary. Brazil hidden that game and Pelé, even so immobile recovering, was brought behind for the terminal essential fit against Portugal. In that game João Morais brutally fouled Pelé, but was sanctioned to continue on field by adjudicator George McCabe. Pelé had to continue in the field limping for the unwind of the game, since substitutes were not sanctioned at that time. After this game he vowed he would not play again in the World Cup, a judgement he would resultant change.
1970 World Cup
Pelé was summoned to the national team in early 1969, he refused at first, but afterward recognised and played in six World Cup qualifying fits, scoring six goals. The 1970 World Cup in Mexico was to be Pelé's last. Brazil's squad for the tournament featured principle modifications in regard to the 1966 squad. Players like Garrincha, Nilton Santos, Valdir Pereira, Djalma Santos, and Gilmar had already retired, but the team, with Pelé, Rivelino, Jairzinho, Gérson, Carlos Alberto Torres, Tostão, and Clodoaldo, is widely examined as one of the largest ever football teams.
In the first fit, against Czechoslovakia, Pelé gave Brazil a 2–1 lead, by chastising Gerson's prolonged surpass with his chest and afterward scoring. In this fit Pelé audaciously tackled to lob goalkeeper Ivo Viktor from the half-way row, simply narrowly nonexistent the Czechoslovak goal. Brazil went on to win the fit, 4–1. In the first half of the fit against England, he virtually scored with a header that was impressively saved by Gordon Banks. In the second half, he augmented Jairzinho for the simply objective of the match. Against Romania, he opened the score on a lead loose kick objective, a forceful assault with the into the open of his right foot. Later on in the fit he scored again to take the score to 3–1. Brazil won by a final score of 3–2. In the quarterfinals against Peru, Brazil won 4–2, with Pelé joining Tostão on for Brazil's third goal. In the semi-finals, Brazil faced Uruguay for the first time since the 1950 World Cup final throughout match. Jairzinho left Brazil frontwards 2–1, and Pelé augmented Rivelino for the 3–1. During that fit, Pelé organised one of his bulk renowned plays. Tostão gave Pelé a through ball, and Uruguay's goalkeeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz took identify of it. The keeper outpoured off of his row to receive the ball in the past Pelé, but Pelé received there first, and without touching the ball, he caused it to go past the keeper, to the latter's withdrew, where Pelé went right. Pelé went round object the goalkeeper and took a shot where turning towards the objective, but he turned in excess as he shot, and the ball drifted just wide of the far post.
Brazil played Italy in the final, with Pelé scoring the opener, with a header through Italian defender Tarcisio Burgnich. He afterward organised augments on Jairzinho's and Carlos Alberto's objectives, the latter one originating later an noble collective play. Brazil won the fit 4–1, saving the Jules Rimet Trophy indefinitely. Burgnich, any person who tagged Pelé during the fit, was quoted expression "I conveyed myself in the past the game, he's organised of skin and bones just like all else — but I was wrong".
Pelé's terminal worldwide fit was on 18 July 1971 against Yugoslavia in Rio de Janeiro. With Pelé on the field, the Brazilian team's record was 67 wins, 14 draws, and 11 losses, and they won three World Cups. Brazil never hidden a fit where fielding both Pelé and Garrincha. The simply worldwide fit Garrincha hidden was against Hungary in 1966, 1–3, which Pelé did not play in because of injury.
South American Championship
Pelé also played in the South American Championship. In the 1959 competition he was seal scorer with eight objectives, as Brazil came second in the tournament.
Family
On 21 February 1966, Pelé married Rosemeri dos Reis Cholby. He has couple daughters Kelly Cristina (13 January 1967) and Jennifer (1978) as well as a son Edson ("Edinho" – tiny Edson, 27 August 1970). The couple divorced in 1978.
Since April 1994 Pelé has been married to psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas, any person who gave birth on 28 September 1996 to twins Joshua and Celeste through fertility treatments.
After football
The bulk notable paddock of Pelé's life since football is his ambassadorial task for various bodies. In 1992, Pelé was appointed a United Nations ambassador for ecology and the environment.
He was awarded Brazil's Gold Medal for very special services to the recreational activities in 1995, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso appointed him to the placement of "Extraordinary Minister for Sport" and he was appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. During this time he planed legislation to diminish corruption in Brazilian football, which became known as the Pelé law. Pelé withdrew his placement in 2001 later he was found fault of involvement in a corruption scandal, even so none has been proved so far. In 1997 he was written an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Pelé scouted for Premier League club Fulham in 2002. He was picked to do the draw for the qualification districts for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.
Pelé has issued some autobiographies, starred in documentary and semi-documentary films and drafted various regular details, surrounding the whole soundtrack for the film Pelé in 1977. He arose, alongside other footballers of the 1960s and 1970s, with Michael Caine, and Sylvester Stallone, in the 1981 film Escape to Victory, come seal an tackled departure from a World War II German POW Camp.
Pelé was guest of honour at the world's oldest football club, Sheffield's 150th day of birth fit v Inter Milan in November 2007. Inter won 5–2 in front of an thankful crowd of virtually 19,000 at Bramall Lane. As component of his visit, Pelé opened an exhibition which included the first public present in 40 years of the original hand written administers of football.
In 2009, he joined with Ubisoft on arcade football game Academy of Champions: Soccer for the Wii and also arose in the game as a omnibus to its players.
On August 1, 2010, Pelé was introduced as the Honorary President of a rebuilt New York Cosmos (2010), aiming to field a team in Major League Soccer.
Honors
Santos
* Copa Libertadores: 1962, 1963
* Campeonato Paulista: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
* Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
* Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa: 1968
* Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966
* Intercontinental Cup: 1962, 1963
* Recopa Intercontinental: 1968
Friendly Club tournaments
* Teresa Herrera Trophy: 1959
* Tournament of Valencia: 1959
* Dr. Mario Echandi Trophy: 1959
* Pentagonal Tournament of Mexico: 1959
* Gialorosso Trophy: 1960
* Tournament of Paris: 1960, 1961
* Tournament of Italy: 1961
* Tournament of Costa Rica: 1961
* Tournament of Caracas: 1965
* Quadrangular Tournament of Buenos Aires: 1965
* Hexagonal Tournament of Chile: 1965, 1970
* Tournament of New York: 1966
* Amazonia Tournament: 1968
* Quadrangular Tournament of Rome/Florence: 1968
* Pentagonal Tournament of Buenos Aires: 1968
* Octagonal Tournament of Chile (Taça Nicolau Moran): 1968
* Tournament of Cuiabá: 1969
* Tournament of Kingstone: 1971
New York Cosmos
* North American Soccer League: 1977
Brazil
* Roca Cup: 1957, 1963
* FIFA World Cup: 1958, 1962, 1970
The count of 32 official team trophies creates him the performer with bulk career titles
Individual
* Santos
o Copa Libertadores seal scorer (1): 1965.
o Campeonato Paulista seal scorer (11): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973.
* Brazil
o Copa América seal scorer (1): 1959.
* BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality:
o Winner (1): 1970
* FIFA World Cup (Best Young Player):
o Winner (1): 1958
* FIFA World Cup (Silver Boot): 1958
* FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 1958
* FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (Best Player)
o Winner (1): 1970
* Athlete of the Century, elected by world wide journalists, poll by French daily L'Equipe: 1981
* South American Footballer of the Year: 1973
* Inducted into the American National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1993.
* Knight Commander of the British Empire: 1997
* In 1989 DPR Korea liberated a postage stamp representing Pelé.
* Athlete of the Century, by Reuters News Agency: 1999
* Athlete of the Century, elected by International Olympic Committee: 1999
* UNICEF Football Player of the Century: 1999
* Time Magazine One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century: 1999
* FIFA Player of the Century : 2000 (view : http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/players/player=63869/bio.html )
* Football Player of the Century, elected by France Football's Golden Ball Winners : 1999
* Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
* South America Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
* Laureus World Sports Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from South African President Nelson Mandela: 2000
In December 2000, Pelé and Maradona shared the prize of FIFA Player of the Century by FIFA. The award was originally denoted to be grounded upon votes in a web poll, but later it became noticeable that it the darling Diego Maradona, many onlookers complained that the Internet nature of the poll would have meant a skewed demographic of younger fans any person who would have supposed Maradona play, but not Pelé. FIFA afterward appointed a "Family of Football" tribunal of FIFA constituents to decide the winner of the award. The tribunal chose Pelé. Since Maradona was winning the Internet poll, however, it was decided he and Pelé ought portion the award.
* International Olympic Committee "Athlete of the Century"
* BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award:
o Winner (1): 2005
A consensus of media and guru polls position Pelé as the largest footballer of all time
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