(1940 -), Brazilian football player, voted "Player of xx e Century by FIFA.
Born to Very Corações (State of Minas Gerais), Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele said, playing his first football game in the club Santos September 7, 1956: During this meeting, he scored the first goals of the 1283 account his outstanding record (including 12 in the final phase of the World Cup). True to the team's flagship state of São Paulo for nearly twenty years, Pele won numerous awards, including four championships in Brazil, the Brazilian Cup in 1968 or Cup South American clubs in 1961 and 1962. It is also sacred South American Player of the Year in 1973.
This playmaker and scorer exceptional part of Brazil with the team to four World Cups. It is, at the age of seventeen years, the revelation of the World Cup 1958, where it contributes to the team victory by scoring two goals in the final. Injured, he can not play the final of 1962, including Brazil wins. In 1966 he was wounded again during the race. In 1970, he has inscribed his 1000 e goal, he is actively involved, alongside Rivelino, Jairzinho, Gerson and Carlos Alberto, the success of the Brazilians flying in the final Italy Sandro Mazzola and Gianni Rivera.
From 1975 to 1977, he played in the team New York Cosmos, with whom he won the U.S. championship in 1977. He was appointed sports minister of Brazil in 1994.
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