Football fans are mourning: Pele is dead.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
December 30, 2022 10:53am CST
Football (soccer) has lost yesterday its King. Edson Arantes do Nascimento lost his last match against cancer.
He was with no doubt O Rei. Many times he has been compared to other incredible football players. But now that videos have been shown, all of the unique moves of other wonderful players have been made before by him.
Brasil will mourn him officially for 7 days. We will all remember him.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
30 Dec 22
Yes so I said about him too Marguicha..I loved him RIP
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
My late husband had the honour of playing against him many decades ago. He always said the was the best.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
30 Dec 22
@marguicha He must have been a very good player your husband.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
@RebeccasFarm Yes, at his time he was one of the best in Chile.
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Dec 22
Never much into sports but with soccer being popular in Latvia I knew all about him and saw him on TV there, What is interesting about his name is that Pele is an actual word in Latvia and translates to mouse, I guess in that case we could say he was the mouse that roared,
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
31 Dec 22
Even people that know nothing about sports, the name Pele mwans something. I only was a box fan when Ali boxed but the name, too, will be forever in the History of boxing. Those people are larger than life.
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@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
31 Dec 22
@marguicha Football is one of the most popular sports in my country. Unforunately our football team is terrible. Many Chinese know Pele and we wish we could have such a wonderful football star one day.
@FourWalls (86855)
• United States
30 Dec 22
He was the first “name” in soccer that Americans recognized. Before him we basically knew nothing about the sport. That’s how significant his impact on the world has been.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
Pele made a comeback in Cosmos, in New York because he was bankrupt and they offered him lots of money. and in his terms although other big teams had offered him a lot of money too. But he liked the idea of teaching America to like soccer. And he did.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
30 Dec 22
I heard about this. May he rest in peace.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
30 Dec 22
He was not only an amazing football player but a great human being.
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@quantum2020 (12054)
• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico
31 Dec 22
I have seen videos of him that I had never seen before and he really knew how to kick and carry the ball in the field. I read that he scored at least one goal in every football match. More than any other football player. I´m going to be knowing more about him now that he has passed away, RIP.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
31 Dec 22
Pele was more than awesome. And he was a wonderful man too.
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@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
31 Dec 22
He is a soccer legend. May he rest in peace.
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