 Billy, as a child, you always said that your destiny was to play football, that this is what moved you, what you did the entire day. And you told your father that you would bring home a World Cup. Were you that convinced at that time that everything would work out for you? Well, I wasn't sure of this in the first place. I simply had some confidence, and before we begin, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you, those that are here, as well as those who are not. After my surgery, which I'm sure you are familiar with, I received a great deal of messages wishing me a good recovery and good health. And I would like to thank you for this personally. The only thing I cannot promise you is that I will be playing in this World Cup that is only three months away. Nonetheless, I would like to express my thanks to all of those that have sent me messages for a quick recovery when it comes to everything that happened in my life. You referred to my childhood, God has been very generous with me because the only thing I wanted as a child was to be like my father. I think that many of you know that my father played football, he played in minas, he then went to a club, and since I was three years old, I wanted to be and to play like my father. Perhaps I was somewhat luckier than my father when it comes to soccer. This was my dream, and luckily with the help of God, I was able to do what I did in soccer. And when you brought down the first World Title, you showed it to your father and said, this is what I promised. That was a story in Bauru when we went to Bauru to play for the club there, and please excuse me for giving you my back. I'm somewhat concerned at having to turn and face you, but my father played soccer in Bach at the Bauru club. He was 40, I was 8 to 10 years, and he brought together the players from Bach. They were saddened because Brazil had lost the World Cup at that time, and I didn't know what to do. I was a child, I saw my father sad and crying and I said, don't worry, I will win a World Cup for you. Everything I simply said, and after the first cup in 1958, Brazil ended up as the champion, but this was simply a coincidence, something I said to make my father happier. When we speak about the World Cup of 1958, you were 17 and you were very young, and you attained phenomenal success at that time. You became the greatest symbol of Brazil. Brazil did not have world-renowned athletes, and you became Brazil. What was it like dealing with fame at that time, being a player at Santos and becoming a worldwide icon in a question of days or months? Well, only God can truly explain what happened. One of the funny things that happened at that time is that at that time I had no knowledge whatsoever of other countries, and in my training to go to Sweden, some of the flares we had, Valdemar de Brito, who played for my father, used to say that Brazil, and I truly thought that everybody knew about Brazil. When we finally got to Sweden with the Brazilian national team, I thought that everybody knew about what I had discussed with my father and my father's friends. I was astounded to see that nobody knew about Brazil when I got there, and when I was a child what truly made me angry, and if there's an Argentinian here, please forgive me, but what made me very angry at the time was that the boys would come up to me and say Pele, Brazil, Argentina, and I would say, no, Brazil has nothing to do with Argentina. We have Sao Paulo, we have Rio, and I became indignant because at that time they didn't have any knowledge whatsoever of Brazil. There were many novelties for us, and Brazil had a certain reputation in terms of soccer. What truly surprised me was that the majority of the Swedish girls were all blonde with green eyes. I'm not joking, and they would come to the site where we were training. We became friends with these young girls, and a disguised swede, I did not speak English, I had a translator. She would caress me in the hand, she would caress me on my face, and for me this was a true novelty, and since that time I thought to myself, my goodness, we have to make Brazil become more known. Of course at that time I had no idea of a more general knowledge, and I asked myself, I wonder if Brazil knows about this because communication was not as easy as it is at present, and because of this I am extremely proud of being Brazilian because I helped Brazil to become known through the national team. Of course I did not do this on my own, there were other players constantly at that time, and this is how we were able to promote Brazil, and at that time, and in terms of soccer, we can say that Brazil truly did work out as a country. Of course not only in soccer, many things have changed, the world has become different. That has changed for you the most, knowledge, general knowledge. When we went there, our knowledge was about soccer. We played in a World Cup that was some time ago, and I have to thank God to have the health to be able to speak about this here and now. We were one of the main reasons for Brazil to become known throughout the world. Today for example we have people from different nationalities here, and the great thrust for all of this without a doubt has been soccer. To continue to speak about this period, and especially to speak about the 1960s in the World Cup of 1960, 1966, you had a lesion and you were unable to play in the World Cup and Brazil lost the World Cup in 1966. These were two great frustrations in your career, and I would like to know if we can say that this was the greatest frustration that you have ever had in your career, those two World Cups in which you were unable to play. It's always a problem when you have a lesion in any event, especially when we speak about a World Cup in the World Cup in which we were champions. I was able to play until the finals, and the finals were perhaps not as painful as the others. We ended up being champions, although I did hurt myself in the next World Cup in England. This was the most difficult for me, as Brazilians were always disputing with the English who was better and who was not, because soccer has come down to us from England. When we were getting ready to play in England, this already was different from the 1958 Cup. We had had the Cup in 1958 and 1962. The world knew about Brazil, and Brazil had become a favorite, and at this World Cup, I was truly expecting for Brazil to become a champion. I had that lesion, unfortunately, when playing with the Portuguese national team. I did not play in the finals, and Brazil lost the Cup. Perhaps this was one of the most painful things, because we had had the responsibility of winning the championship. The first World Cup ended up being a surprise for everybody, but for the World Cup in England, because of the importance of English soccer, we had prepared to be winners. Besides not being a winner, I ended up being hurt. Perhaps the lesion was more serious than the defeat, and the coming World Cup was in 1970, where you played, and Brazil won. This was a period when you were able to overcome your problems. You had thought about not playing anymore. You went there, and you came out revered. It was published oftentimes that I had said I would no longer play, because I was concerned. I was afraid of playing in a World Cup and having the same thing happen as had happened in the previous World Cup. This was my concern. It was no longer the first or the second World Cup. That was my concern of not being able to play, of having a lesion. That is why I stated to some journalists that I was concerned with this, because it was a great responsibility, and each journalist would tell a different story, but this was the reality, and after all of this had happened to me in the Cup of 1966, when we ended up being champions in 1970, I said, why not leave as a champion? Once again, that concern persisted. Brazil had already been a champion in 1970. It was an enormous celebration. It was a farewell in truth, and this appeared in all of the headlines stating that I had a problem. They even stated that I had faced a problem with the president of the republic. There was nothing of this. It was simply about soccer, and at that time we did not have the information that we have presently about soccer. A soccer player at present cannot even hold a conversation without being accused of escaping from the preparation. I don't know. I don't know if it was like that. I wanted to be very well prepared. We are something different now because people were expecting more, more precise at that time. The fact of being a champion is something that is repeated many times. Do you think that it is supplied to everything, not only to athletes, but to any career of any person to leave it on top? Life itself is a competition, is a contest, a competition as to your personal growth. All senses, life is like the soccer game. Nobody wants to be defeated in life. Nobody wants to win, to have success. And the same thing happens not only with soccer, but with sports in general. Nobody wants to practice as a kind of sport to lose. And what was your biggest defeat? My biggest defeat? I have to thank God because my defeats were my injures. I have to thank the Lord because I had many defeats, but the injures I received in soccer were compensated by my victories. The last defeat I suffered is that I had to undergo two surgeries in my femur and unfortunately the first surgery didn't work out well. It is difficult to talk about that because many people will not understand. I will put the blame on the doctors, but that wasn't like that. I had to remake this surgery in the US now. That's why I got here in my new car, this new car you see. But thank the Lord, I am beginning to move around. What was so good to be that all these injuries and surgeries were after 35 years of soccer playing. So I'm still in the victory side. In all these years, what were your biggest supporter? What was the person who made you follow on to continue? I had several colleagues and friends in this soccer and I cannot but remember all the victories I had with my colleagues in my team in the Santos club. We had many victories together and I cannot forget them. But thinking in terms of my bases, my father and everybody knows about this. He was a soccer player also but he didn't win any big championship. He played in several teams but he never achieved a big victory. My father also went to Bauru, which is a small city in Sao Paulo. He was my best example who gave me the best advice because he had the experience and he used to tell me, I remember he's saying, listen, it's not, you are not better only because you made a goal or that is a person, a gift that God has offered you. So don't you ever think that you are better than others? You must be always prepared and you must thank the Lord and never, never think that you are better than the others. That is the best example I received. And so your gratitude goes all towards him. Yes, yes, in that sense it does. But in a general sense my biggest gratitude was my mother who gave me life. But as to the respect I feel for people and to within and the capability of staying in my sport, I believe that came all from my father's inspiration. What did your father say when you said you were going to drop out from soccer? The first time I told him was when I got hurt before the 70s, the 70s cup. This was another good advice he gave me, he said, no, not at all, you are still very well, you can play by coincidence, the previous year Santos was champion. That was my team and I was playing as forward. And he gave me this incentive and I said, okay, but now it's enough, Santos is such a good team but it's not Corinthians, it's not the Brazilian national team. So he really gave me the incentive. Then you decided finally and he said, okay, it's okay when I took my last decision, I was promoting soccer in US and because even myself I said, well, this is a good opportunity because soccer is well known in the whole world and I will go to US to work with young people, to work at schools, in soccer clinics and this is something I really appreciate. I didn't expect Cosmos to become a champion and Cosmos became also a champion on the year I played with it. So that's why I accepted to go to work in the US because I wanted to show the American youth that soccer was a nice sport, etc. That's why I went there. We are going to take some questions from the audience if someone would like to ask a question to Pele. I wanted to tell you that you in your 1,000 goal, you said you would dedicate that goal to the children. What is the legacy that you think you gave to these children? It was just a coincidence where we are training in Villa Belmiro and that was a good moment for me to go back to education and the care we must take with the children where we are training in Villa Belmiro, whoever knows Santos, they know that the field is quite in the middle of the Santos town. I was coming back, I had left earlier, normally you stay for longer but that day I left earlier. When I was going to my car there were two children that were trying to steal a car. I said hey children, what are you doing there? Do you want to steal a car? And the boy said no, no Pele, we are just stealing those who have come from Sao Paulo. I said what do you mean, what do you mean you are currently stealing anybody, not people from Sao Paulo or Santos or whoever. So you see how things are. So I went to talk to the director of the club and told him that there were children messing with his car but then they left running and they went away. But I was impressed with this, you know, no this cannot happen and in real, by coincidence two weeks later, we played against Vasco when I made my 1000th goal, the first thing I had to say is that that made me remember about those kids and that's why I asked the Brazilian government to give more attention to the children. It was nothing very well organized, it was a mere coincidence, the children wanted to steal that car and the week that I was going to play in the Maracana. So that's why it published all this about the children. So that is the legacy you have left, your social work for instance. That's why when I started my career I have been talking about children and the care we must take of them and now I had this idea of creating this foundation in order to continue giving support to the children. I worked also with UNICEF in a very similar project so our idea is that everybody may help. So yes, we have this idea and to continue this kind of work unfortunately we are going through a very difficult phase in Brazil with all the problems we have faced. But I believe that youth and children are the basis for tomorrow and we must try to help and help childhood questions. It's an honor for me to meet you as a passionate Brazilian. I have a curiosity. I would like you to describe the feeling of making a goal. Well, now in regard to a difficult position, it wasn't myself who said that, I have a friend but I will not tell his name. He said talking about goals and the feeling of a goal, it's like an explosion. He said a goal is very similar like a delivery. Like delivery is like when you see him born, it's difficult to explain the feeling of making a goal. That's why he said it depends on the game if you have five to zero or two to zero but if you have zero to zero and you make a goal, the feeling is quite other. That has to do with it. A goal is just like having a child. Be present at the birth of your son. It will depend of the moment. It may be a friendly game or a goal in a training or a goal at the World Cup. The emotion is different. What really matters when you make a goal is the need for it. If you're in an easy game and you make this bicycle goal, it's very nice but if it is zero to zero in the final game of a World Cup or a penalty goal, people say to play a penalty is very easy when others are playing but it is very dangerous. I am being honest here because I felt that we made this goal at the World Cup for those who don't know 1,283 goals. That is the world record that belongs to Pele, 1,283 goals. From these that Pele made, many were the bicycle as it's called and the goal number 1,000 was a goal played as a penalty. And it may look as very easy but when you are inside it seems that the goal is very small, the goalkeeper is enormous and it will depend a lot on the moment. But I thank you all because it's always very nice. Is there any other question? I can hear in Portuguese. On behalf of every Englishman I'd like to thank you for allowing us one victory in the World Cup. But my question to you is who do you most like to watch play these days and why? Which player do you most like to watch play? I will talk about the player, not team player. Both if you like. Today, today, I used to say you must be honest. I have our child. Nowadays our child is Neymar. Neymar is our son. Neymar is one of the biggest players here in Brazil. He was used to play with Santos. Neymar really is a very good player. But until yesterday, for me the best player was Messi from Argentina. In the general context of soccer, as a shooter as a forward, of course that Cristiano Ronaldo is the biggest. So I will keep these three and I always joke and say, and Brazilians know about this, as I am a man with three hearts. I was born in a city called Three Hearts. I will keep Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar. One for each of the hearts of my city. The last thing I would like to say is Pele or Maradona? Pele, Pele, Pele, Pele, Pele, Pele. You know that I can't say Maradona because my mother will not be happy. But otherwise I will say Maradona, I will stay with Pele. Thank you. I want to thank you all for this opportunity. I hope you have a good stay in Brazil and it's always nice to have the opportunity to receive this spiritual, this strength coming from all of you. And since we are near World Cup in three months, we should be playing at World Cup. All the other languages that have been here. Let's make one party and please leave Brazil as a champion. Please, let it be a champion again. Well, we do have to adjourn because as the Swiss people, we no longer have any more time. Thank you very much, Pele.