Life After Career: Pele's Life After Career

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When, did Pele score his first goal? Pele scored his first goal at the age of 15. I’m going to tell you about Pele background, Pele Career Highlights, and Pele Life After Career. In 1969 Pele said, “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” and that was his first quote. At a young, Pele had a passion to play soccer. Pele is credited, or recognized, to be a skilled player. Although Pele is still living, he still helps people.


Background

Although, Pele was young, he did so much. Pele started playing soccer in Brazil. He played on the street with his friends. In 1940, Pele was born in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, in Brazil on October 23, 1940. At the age of two, he was nicknamed Dico. That was Pele’s nicknamed for a long time. When Pele was born, …show more content…

In ultimately, Pele had a world cup performance in 1958. He also won the world cup in the same year. He had jubilation (a feeling of extreme joy) when he won. People also think Pele has better prosperity (more luck) than most. Pele accomplished an exceptional many goals in his life. During, Pele’s career, he scored a total of 1,283 goals through 1954 to 1977. This is a quote from Pele “Football is the only sport where you put people together. It doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.”


Life After Career
Although Pele is still living, he still helps people. When Pele was playing soccer he had to go to the Nigerian civil war. Which helped his family and friends. This is, one of Pele’s quotes that helped people, especially this one, “Success is no accident, It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” That, quote helped people believe in themselves. England World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore impute on Pele: “The complete player I've ever seen.” Also, Bobby Moore helped inspire Pele to help people.

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