Pelé part 1

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Edison "Edson" Arantes do Nascimento, best known by his nickname Pelé is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded among football experts and former players as one of the greatest football players of all time. In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games.

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 tally of 32 official team trophies makes him the player with most career titles

Individual:-
Santos:
Copa Libertadores top scorer (1): 1965.

Campeonato Paulista top scorer (11): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973.

Brazil:
Copa América top scorer (1): 1959

BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality:
Winner (1): 1970

FIFA World Cup (Best Young Player):
Winner (1): 1958

FIFA World Cup (Silver Boot): 1958

FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 1958

FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (Best Player)
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 issued a postage stamp depicting 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

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.

International Olympic Committee "Athlete of the Century"

BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award:
Winner (1): 2005

A consensus of media and expert polls rank Pelé as the greatest footballer of all time

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[bolder2009]

Ok lets see. He played with a heavier ball, on terrible pitches, with less protection, scratch that, NO PROTECTION from the refs like players today who go to the ground at the slightest touch. Then add the fact of the advantages the modern player has in terms of sporting science, nutrition, and advanced training methods. Yet NO OTHER PLAYER IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL PAST OR PRESENT HAS DOMINATED THE SPORT LIKE PELE. I'm sorry but you can't change history and erase what Pele achieved.

[bolder2009]

To say that he had no competition in his era shows that you are either

a) Ignorant of the history of the football. Or

b) In denial and clutching at straws for a reason to explain why he was so superior in a generation that produced many of the greatest players of alltime. A player that took the world by storm at the age of 17, and was at the pinnacle for his whole career. And produced his best on the biggest stage in two different eras (58 and 70).

[MrTwamoghnade]

pele is the best

[lionelacap10]

@lakyjar Messi should say to him, "after you've win ballon d or and become top scorer in champions league for 3 successive years, come and see me. :D

[lionelacap10]

@lakyjar Yes you're right. Pele just win world cup with the best team in that time. The football at that time is really damn slow and no quality. he only scores more than 1000 goals at santos, a really low class team. the ratio of the goal at brazil and europe is 1:3 so by average, pele only scores about 300 goals if he plays in europe. Pele also never win any awards in europe like ronaldo or zidane. How can he ask messi to score 1000 goals and see him.

[lakyjar]

Pele allways played with EXCELLENT teammates. He was a fantastic player, but not the best.

[lakyjar]

@bolder2009 In 58 he played two good matches in a good brazilian team, in 62 Garrincha single handedly won the cup (almost like Maradona in 86), in 66, and Pele in his peak, brazil did not past the first round, although was a "bad" team (for brazil standards) and the tournament were very physical (but so was 62), in 70 he played with the BEST TEAM OF ALL TIMES.

[Martinez1887]

@bolder2009

but look at the videos, the game was sooooo damn slow, and pele never dominated the sport, he only played in the shitty brazilian league, never at toplevel, so of course he scored many goals...but at worldcups, he was NEVER topscorer, and brazil was totally diminating back then, they would have won the 3 worldcups without him as well

[ludaekipabrale]

Best player in History of football.PELE=KING!!!...Respec­t from Croatia :)

[megalolkiller]

@bolder2009 well george best in that time and cruyff also did great things with a ball but pele he is an inventor just like cruyff

[megalolkiller]

it´s kinda strange i know pele speaks english why doesn´t he here