There is still no Nobel Prize in Brazil, Pele ingrained An icon that creates a new cultural and national identity with ‘bem jogado’, the highest expression of footballhas a technical brilliance from its roots ‘ginga’, Shaking of the body following the African music rhythm. Its success was so great that, in American Portuguese, ‘ser o Pelé de…’, tainted by racial prejudices that have persisted over time, excellence is synonymous with excellence in any everyday sphere.
He was born in 1940 in Tres Coraçoes, the coffee state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil of the excluded. Edson Arantes doing the Nascimento He was not bred to oppose order or to advocate a revolution. He was a citizen of genius and order, living together and allowing himself to be exploited by the military dictatorship (1964-85). When he scored his thousandth goal at the stadium in November 1969 shackleAt the worst moment of the oppression, he dedicated the target to “children, the poor, the old blind, and charities” in an empty talk that didn’t tickle even the mighty. Pelé did not have an activist spirit even when he was Minister of Sports in his first government (1995-99). Fernando Henrique Cardoso when it supports literacy campaigns and lifts the lien on clubs.
The Pelé legend, ‘Atleta do Século’, is limited to four lines where he has had a solid career spanning three decades and has crowned Brazilian football’s golden age with its first three World Cup successes (1958, 1958). 1962 and 1970), which placed the individual bar out of anyone’s reach. He was the ‘o Rei’ of a sport that he helped universalize and became its first major global idol.
stray dog complex
The path to national liberation runs from Maracanazo of 1950, when he was just 9 years old, to the 70, considered Mexico’s best, when he heard his father cry for the first time when he heard 1-2 against Uruguay on the radio. team of all time. with the visionary Mario Lobo Zagallo hosting four ’10’ (Rivellino, Gerson, Tostao and Pelé himself) in a legendary team.
World Cups Unifying, cumulative, baroque flexibility of dribbling and abundance of goals in the formation and management of ‘craques’ of tactile Brazil They buried the so-called ‘vira-lata complex’ (stray dog complex) coined by playwright Nelson Rodrigues and has been associated with a profound lack of collective self-confidence stemming from the legacy of being a mining colony.
Pelé indirectly dynamized decades of racial prejudice and stigma, amplified by Mario Filho’s (the journalist for whom the Maracana stadium is named) classic ‘O negro eo futebol brasileiro’ and reinforced by the 1950 football drama that crucified the goalkeeper (black). ) Moacir Barbosa and that it fueled suspicion towards the descendants of the slaves because they lacked the “emotional balance” to face decisive matches.
The title of Sweden 58, which Pelé won at the age of 17, is a founding legend. a way of understanding the ‘art of football’ and Brazil through improvisation. The Pelé-Garrincha duo were born there (played by Santos from São Paulo and Botafogo from Rio de Janeiro, respectively), never being beaten in a Seleçao game and embodying the purity and Early faith of creative football. talent should be encouraged and not stopped. Symbolically, the number ’10’ with which he won his first World Cup, It begins to be designed to identify the best in this sport.
‘O rei’ respected by all his subjects
Pele’s current opinion and general consensus in Brazil he was the tenth player, an adonis, unrepeatable, invincible, a genius mastering all individual technical fundamentals. All contemporary and future ‘craques’ paid tribute to him. Without exception.
Pelé won three World Cups, but also became the first person to score a thousand goals. (he made 1,283 during his career), scoring mostly for Santos FC, a small club on the São Paulo coast, where he took him to football Olympus. ‘Peixe’ stop playing in official tournaments to prioritize trips abroad, as at the start of the Copa Libertadores. European superpowers such as Benfica, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Inter Milan have been measured. His goal-scoring achievements never waned.
Criticism, no less, has always focused on the figure of citizen Edson, in an opening that Pelé personally encouraged to keep his football legacy unblemished. Therefore, their success was never tainted by the missing father, who did not recognize an illegitimate daughter who did not even attend her funeral; or the only footballer descendant Edinho (former Santos goalkeeper) was exempted from prison for drug trafficking. Former football player with an easy and contradictory verb, empty opinions, It was summed up in “Pelé is a silent poet,” one of Romario’s best quotes that has already formed the country’s ideology.but this is not incompatible with the feeling that there never was and never will be another actor like him.
There is still no Nobel Prize in Brazil, Pele ingrained An icon that creates a new cultural and national identity with ‘bem jogado’, the highest expression of footballhas a technical brilliance from its roots ‘ginga’, Shaking of the body following the African music rhythm. Its success was so great that, in American Portuguese, ‘ser o Pelé de…’, tainted by racial prejudices that have persisted over time, excellence is synonymous with excellence in any everyday sphere.
He was born in 1940 in Tres Coraçoes, the coffee state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil of the excluded. Edson Arantes doing the Nascimento He was not bred to oppose order or to advocate a revolution. He was a citizen of genius and order, living together and allowing himself to be exploited by the military dictatorship (1964-85). When he scored his thousandth goal at the stadium in November 1969 shackleAt the worst moment of the oppression, he dedicated the target to “children, the poor, the old blind, and charities” in an empty talk that didn’t tickle even the mighty. Pelé did not have an activist spirit even when he was Minister of Sports in his first government (1995-99). Fernando Henrique Cardoso when it supports literacy campaigns and lifts the lien on clubs.
The legend of Pelé, ‘Atleta do Século’, is limited to four lines where he has had a solid career spanning three decades and has crowned Brazilian football’s golden age with its first three World Cup successes (1958, 1958). 1962 and 1970), which placed the individual bar out of anyone’s reach. He was the ‘o Rei’ of a sport that he helped universalize and became its first major global idol.
stray dog complex
The path to national liberation runs from Maracanazo of 1950, when he was just 9 years old, to the 70, considered Mexico’s best, when he heard his father cry for the first time when he heard 1-2 against Uruguay on the radio. team of all time. with the visionary Mario Lobo Zagallo hosting four ’10’ (Rivellino, Gerson, Tostao and Pelé himself) in a legendary team.
World Cups Unifying, cumulative, baroque flexibility of dribbling and abundance of goals in the formation and management of ‘craques’ of tactile Brazil They buried the so-called ‘vira-lata complex’ (stray dog complex) coined by playwright Nelson Rodrigues and has been associated with a profound lack of collective self-confidence stemming from the legacy of being a mining colony.
Pelé indirectly dynamized decades of racial prejudice and stigma, amplified by Mario Filho’s (the journalist for whom the Maracana stadium is named) classic ‘O negro eo futebol brasileiro’ and reinforced by the 1950 football drama that crucified the goalkeeper (black). ) Moacir Barbosa and that it fueled suspicion towards the descendants of the slaves because they lacked the “emotional balance” to face decisive matches.
The title of Sweden 58, which Pelé won at the age of 17, is a founding legend. a way of understanding the ‘art of football’ and Brazil through improvisation. The Pelé-Garrincha duo were born there (played by Santos from São Paulo and Botafogo from Rio de Janeiro, respectively), who were never defeated in a Seleçao game and embodied the purity and Early faith of creative football. talent should be encouraged and not stopped. Symbolically, the number ’10’ with which he won his first World Cup, It begins to be designed to identify the best in this sport.
‘O rei’ respected by all his subjects
Pele’s current opinion and general consensus in Brazil he was the tenth player, an adonis, unrepeatable, invincible, a genius mastering all individual technical fundamentals. All contemporary and future ‘craques’ paid tribute to him. Without exception.
Pelé won three World Cups, but also became the first person to score a thousand goals. (he made 1,283 during his career), scoring mostly for Santos FC, a small club on the São Paulo coast, where he took him to football Olympus. ‘Peixe’ stop playing in official tournaments to prioritize trips abroad, as at the start of the Copa Libertadores. European superpowers such as Benfica, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Inter Milan have been measured. His goal-scoring achievements never waned.
Criticism, no less, has always focused on the figure of citizen Edson, in an opening that Pelé personally encouraged to keep his football legacy unblemished. Therefore, their success was never tainted by the missing father, who did not recognize an illegitimate daughter who did not even attend her funeral; or the only footballer descendant Edinho (former Santos goalkeeper) was exempted from prison for drug trafficking. Former football player with an easy and contradictory verb, empty opinions, It was summed up in “Pelé is a silent poet,” one of Romario’s best quotes that has already formed the country’s ideology.but this is not incompatible with the feeling that there never was and never will be another actor like him.