PELE THE KING OF FOOTBALL

Pele is the king of Football and the most popular player in the world.  He is extremely talented and within a microsecond he used to come up with an improvisation.  His ability to improvise on the field was always an element of surprise for his opponents.  He invented several shots and the reverse somersault with which he scored a goal is the best of all.

He was moving like a leopard in the football field and there was very little chance for the opponent to block his moves.  He wore number 10 jersey and the number 10 on the jersey became a super hit because it was used by Pele.

It is difficult to express in words all the shots played by this great legend.  The statistics of how he performed on the filed speaks a million words.  He scored his first international goal when he was only 16 years and 10 months old which is an incredible record.  Thus he became the youngest player to score an international goal.  The very next year he scored his first World Cup Goal while he was only 17 years and 7 months old thus becoming the youngest every player to score a World Cup Goal.



He has scored 543 league goals and in total of 1363 games that he played he has scored a total of 1281 goals.  His strike rate in terms goals to matches is 94% which means in almost every single match that he played he has scored a goal.  This by itself is an unique record.  These goals also got him into the Guinness Book of World Records for highest number of goals scored by a player in his career.

He has represented Brazil in 92 matches and has scored for his country 77 goals which includes the 12 celebrated world cup goals.  The Brazilian team has won the football world cup several times and Pele has been part of the team on three occasions, viz., 1958, 1962 and 1970.  Playing in three world cup winning teams is yet another unique record that Pele is holding.

According to Pele the 1970 world cup winning team of Brazil was the best ever team as it was very well organised team.  He has been part of the national team of Brazil from 1957 to 1971 which is quite a long career.

Brazil is hosting the Football World Cup 2014 and the name Pele is synonymous with the country Brazil.  We will be having some great matches to watch from 12th June 2014 onwards in the World Cup 2014.

T.P.Anand
Chennai, India
4th June 2014