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[sidspaceman]

Después de haber tenido al italiano Franco Baresi como el responsable de los fichajes y las inferiores del equipo, el Fulham inglés acaba de contratar a Pelé como cazatalentos para Suramérica.

Según el Rey del fútbol, “Hay muchos futbolistas brasileños de nivel jugando en todo el mundo, pero muy pocos en Inglaterra, así que espero que algún día tengamos a algunos en el Fulham".

El contrato fue cerrado por Pelé con el propio dueño del club londinense, Mohamed Al Fayed.

http://www.futbolred.com/default.asp?link=noticia&idn=21531

Pele is Fulham's new South American scout.

[Labdarugo]

A living legend
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Cracks in the crown, but he's still the king
The Big Interview: Alex Bellos prepares tough questions for Pele, once Brazil's untarnished hero, but all he finds is an excited child

http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,905853,00.html

[ChiBrasil]

Find this just s few minutes ago.

http://www.isfa.com/server/web/pele/english/pele_videos.html

[efernandez9]

"Pelé", el mejor futbolista de la historia para muchos, es dueño de empresas y cuentas bancarias no declaradas en varios paraísos fiscales, según un informe publicado este domingo por el diario "Folha de Sao Paulo.

El legendario futbolista que encantó al mundo vistiendo las camisas del Santos, el Cosmos (Estados Unidos) y la selección brasileña es objeto de un reportaje de tres páginas en el que "Folha" traza una radiografía de sus presuntos negocios.

El informe, preparado en base a documentos que el diario dice haber obtenido en tribunales, acusa a Pelé y a su ex socio Helio Viana de ocultar al fisco brasileño la constitución de empresas en el exterior y la apertura de cuentas bancarias, y también de haber utilizado algunos testaferros con ese fin.

"Folha" cita compañías y cuentas en las Islas Vírgenes, Bahamas y Liechtenstein, con millonarios movimientos financieros.

También menciona el caso de una de esas empresas, que según unas acusaciones ventiladas hace dos años habría servido a Pelé y a Viana para apropiarse indebidamente de 700.000 dólares destinados a proyectos de ayuda a la infancia argentina promovidos por la Unicef.

[Frank Cunha]

http://msn.espn.go.com/page2/s/list/greatestteenagers.html

[tpmazembe]

Just came back from Brasil, were meu parceiro is getting hyped up to see the documentary “Pele, Eterno” scheduled to open in cinema’s locally on December 12th.

The film, which will be the most complete chronicle of his career to date, has been edited to two hours from some 4 hours of footage; much of it rare, not widely viewed footage (I hope the four hour version will eventually be available on DVD!).

Unfortunately, I will not be there for the movie, but was hoping some of my irmaos from the Brasil thread could post their thoughts after having viewed it (or previous to it as well).

Obrigado.

[MathuzaLem]

I heard that at least 200 goals from the king will be shown... many rare goals, and many amazing plays, probably including the 2 almost goals more famous...
looking foward to see...

[tpmazembe]

Didn’t know this thread existed. Good deal.

Was in Rio last week and found in a used booked store “Ma vie e ceux jeu merveilleux”…the 1978 French language edition of “My Life and the Beautiful Game”. An amazing tale of how a poor boy gets to lead an amazing life for mastering a simple game .

Read it that same night. I recommend to anyone interested in the life and times of O Rei. Lots of interesting insights from his perspective. If you’ll indulge, here are some cool tidbits garnered from the book.

a) How mature the child prodigy was. There is a passage where he describes his thoughts after having played his first game in WC 1958 against Russia. He tells of how he stayed up most of the night replaying the whole game over in his head, play by play. That night he does a self-assessment that he played too nervously, and that he needed to calm down to take his goal opportunites. He promises himself that if in the line-up for the next game against Wales, to be calmer and less nervous like Garrincha, Didi, Vava and Zagallo. He vows to be more “professional” the next game.

b) Nervousness before the WC 1970 final. Tells of how he began to cry uncontrollably in the bus on the way to the Azteca stadium, while the team was engaged in a batucada, and having to feign losing something on the bus floor to keep his teammates from seeing (not out of shame, but he had been calming them down in the days before the game and didn’t want to cause a sense of panic). He doesn’t know what caused it, but says that letting those emotions flow through served to completely relax him by the time he actually got on the pitch. Interesting what some moments of extreme pressure can do to a person, and how the body reacts. Will we ever know what happened to Ronaldo in 1998?

c) The marathon life lead with Santos. He describes how in the summer of 1959 how Santos went on a European tour playing 15 games in 22 days in 9 different countries day! The travel schedule was brutal, and offered no time for rest….it was play, eat, sleep, catch a train on to the next city; often playing on the afternoon of the day they arrived. The list of clubs played included the Andrelecht, Inter, Feyenoord and even some national teams (not nobodies as some would lead you to believe). You get a sense of how these guys were living, and pressure to perform to fatten the clubs coffers. You also understand that such was the reputation of the team, that each opponent was hyped to beat them, and not friendlies in any real sense of the term. Plus he, Pele, had to participate in all the games since the majority of the “guaranteed” purse was contingent on his being in the line-up.

d) Real Madrid. The best part of the story above is how, at the end of the programmed excursion, the players, fatigued, some sleep deprived, sore from travel, and injured from successive games, are told that they are to meet Real Madrid in Spain for a last minute “impromptu” encounter. Come to find that Real had been preparing for a week for the encounter. Real win the game 5-3…..the only game the two legendary teams ever played against each other. What is interesting to me is the sense of frustration / outrage from Pele at this incident – in fact the only such indignation in the whole book. I know that these biographies are ghost written, and that tone is edited not to offend and/or to make the subject seem like a wonderful person, but even talking about negative encounters with opposing players, being ripped off financially by his first business manager, or the ugly affair with Joel Saldanha before WC 1970, his tone is never a aggressive or negative towards his perceived offender. But, on the subject of that Real game, he states (translating from French):

[I’ve never been able to forget that defeat. From the other perspective, its obviously a victory that Real has never wanted to forget either, since they continuously refused a rematch for the better part of 18 years. They’ve had good reason to refuse such a game since that day; because under normal conditions, with appropriate rest, we would have crushed them in 1959, and they know it. In fact, during a tournament in Argentina a couple of months later, Real preferred to withdraw from the tournament, despite our respective victories requiring that Santos and Real meet. No, Real beat Santos once, and never wanted to put that “record” in jeopardy.]

e) His thoughts on some of the players he played with and against. Includes a passage where he says that Charlton, Moore, and Cooper were technically gifted enough to play on Brasilian teams. Can't speak highly enough of Didi mastery of the game, and Zizinho, as well as many others. Gives repect to Argentine, Uruguayan, and European players too many to mention.

f) Provided insight into two of his almost goals from 1970. In the account you understand that a complete player is one that combines individual brilliance/creativity, with thoughtful analysis, and execution. In both cases he explains how he had noticed habits of each goal keeper from studying film, and made mental notes of these facts.

In the first case, the behind the midfield line attempt, he says he had noticed how European keepers had a habit of coming off their lines while the ball was in their offensive end. He had the ball in his half and the defenders where playing off him expecting for him to challenge them. He sees Viktor of his line and decides to go for it, and put into practice his father’s advise –‘play instinctively, almost without thinking’, but fully aware of what you are doing. We know how close that came to working (and how it has been copied since). An interesting note is that he says he wished he had saved that attempt for later in the tournament, against a stronger opponent such as England, because after that moment none of the goalies facing the Selecao in that tournament strayed off their line.

In the second case, the one-time volley of the Uruguay keepers kick, Pele tells of how he had seen in film Makurkiewicz’s habit of restarting play from his box through short kicks to his back line, and observed him doing so during the game. At a given moment he decides to go for it, runs past the defenders and one-time volleys the goalie’s kick back as hard as he could. Makurkiewicz makes a diving effort to save it, and of course begins varying his kick-ins to restart play.

A curiousity is that O Rei doesn’t mention the dummy on Makurkiewicz in that same Uruguay semi-final game (to my mind, one of the utmost moments of genius on a football pitch).

I could go on with more – the whole chapter on the WC 1966 debacle, his loss of love for the game for a period of time, his own doubts about his belonging early on in his career, etc - but probably have already overdone it. I don’t know about you, but I’m always fascinated about football history and the perspective of players involved in making it. If you are like me, get yourself a copy its worth the full read.

PS – the book also has an appendix of 20 pages or so with games played by Rei, including opponent, location, date, score, and number of goals scored by Pele. It’s a great reference tool.

[pokemoncards]

I'd really like to know, thanks

[tpmazembe]

From "My Life and the Beautiful Game" and "Enciclopedia da Selecao":

In 1956 Pele appeared in two games for Santos and scored 2 goals.

In 1957 Pele appeared in 75 games and scored 66 goals. Two of those games was for the Brasilian national team, played three days apart , against Argentina for the Copa Roca. Against Brasil's toughest historical opponent, the 16 year old scored a goal in each game...an auspicious debut.

If interested Argentina won the first on July 7th 2X1 Labruna,Pele,Juarez
Brasil won the second on July 10th 2X0 Pele, Mazzola

[oxygen041]

pele is a great player in brazil history, but the young generation missed his shining period, in my country , most people even had never watched any goal of the football king ,so i ask for some goal's gif or video of his goal.
i will spread it in my country to make more and more people know this never-fade histroy

and some maradona's is also available, i like to see it as a comparation
thank you again

[dbdb]

pele is a great player in brazil history, but the young generation missed his shining period, in my country , most people even had never watched any goal of the football king ,so i ask for some goal's gif or video of his goal.
i will spread it in my country to make more and more people know this never-fade histroy

and some maradona's is also available, i like to see it as a comparation
thank you again
A film about Pele is being done by a brazilian director. It seems to be very good. It'll be in the cinemas here in may. You'll be able to see it soon. Anyway, in Kazaa you can find many things...

[oxygen041]

A film about Pele is being done by a brazilian director. It seems to be very good. It'll be in the cinemas here in may. You'll be able to see it soon. Anyway, in Kazaa you can find many things...

i am not a p2p user .
i want some goal's gif more eagerly, my net speed is not fit for video,i think.
anywhere i can find?

[dbdb]

i am not a p2p user .
i want some goal's gif more eagerly, my net speed is not fit for video,i think.
anywhere i can find?
Perhaps Google. Can't help you much more...

[PsyKoh]

Said he thinks Corinthians will win the cup this year. Keep in mind corinthians has been losing friendlies to teams small enough to almost be considered amateurs and the fans are resorting to throwing eggs everywhere they go.

http://www.estadao.com.br/esportes/futebol/noticias/2004/abr/18/125.htm

[MIGkiller]

He's not alone there. Vanderlei Luxembrugo said in an interview that Corinthians have the best midfield in Brazil today and they are all seleção material. And that's the team that was almost relegated in the Paulista championship this year. :rolleyes:

[Ombak]

He's not alone there. Vanderlei Luxembrugo said in an interview that Corinthians have the best midfield in Brazil today and they are all seleção material. :rolleyes:

No matter how bad Diego is playing I think Santos always have an excellent midfield with Elano, Paulo Almeida, Claiton and some great bench players.

And yeah, predicting glory for Corinthians considering how they've done so far this season is rather bold.

[JL-SPFC]

Pele should always be respected for his soccer skills not for his brain. Corinthians was on the verge of being sent to the Second Division of the Paulista Championship. They were saved by my team (SPFC) who beat the team that was competing directly to survive in the 1st Division.
Corinthians really should struggle to stay in the 1st Division of the Brasileiro, because this year FOUR teams will go down to 2nd Division.
I agree 100% with PsyKoh. Watch out Timao (ou Timinho de m***a)!!!

[MIGkiller]

Pelé also dealing with medical problems. Of course not closely related to what Maradona is facing.

http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=ap-pelehospitalized&prov=ap&type=lgns

Soccer great Pele leaves hospital following emergency surgery


SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Soccer great Pele left the hospital Friday, a day after undergoing emergency surgery for a detached retina.

The surgery on Pele's left eye was ``routine and successful,'' according to a statement from the Albert Einstein Hospital. The 63-year-old Pele is expected to rest at his suburban home for at least 10 days.

[Brazil_1500]

Se há algo que os argentinos podem se orgulhar é o fato de ter visto Pelé muito mais vezes do que os brasileiros viram Maradona.
Com Santos e Seleção, o brasileiro se exibiu mais de duas dezenas de vezes no país vizinho.

O número é impreciso porque houve vários amistosos do clube paulista nos quais a presença de Pelé, embora registrada por jornais locais, nunca ocorreu. E vice-versa.

http://esportes.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI298357-EI2260,00.html