Here are 10 facts you may not know about Pel েলের, the king of soccer

Legendary Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pel, celebrated his 70th birthday on October 23.

Even after retiring in 1984, more than four decades ago, the former player remains one of the best known and most respected figures in the world.

Pel লে became famous for winning the World Cup three times. He is the only player, male or female, who has won the World Cup so many times. He also played 1,363 games for his club and country, scoring a total of 1,261 goals, a world record.

The skill and experience he demonstrated in soccer crossed the limits of human imagination. His story spread to the world outside of sports.

There are some stories about this famous person in history that many may not have heard yet. Here are 10 stories:

June 17, 1986 The Colombian Olympic squad played with Santos FC de Pelé in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. It was a friendly match.

The stadium was packed with spectators.

Suddenly, the sound of spectators sighing from the gallery came when referee Guillermo Velásquez ordered Pel to leave the field. Even then the red card was not introduced, it started in 1970.

Pel লে was asked to leave the field after fouling a Colombian defender and insulting the footballer, according to the referee.

This decision created chaos in the field. The Santos footballers were excited and surrounded the referee. The images of the match that have been published show that the eyes of referee Velásquez have turned black.

At that time, the spectators also protested against the referee’s decision.

Referee Velasquez later said in an interview in 2010 that he had been asked to leave the field and hand over the flute to the linesman.

After that, he returned to the game.

Pel’s Santos FC football club was one of the most popular clubs in the world in the 1960s.

The club used to participate in friendly matches in different parts of the world. They also got some additional benefits due to this reputation.

One of those friendly matches was in war-torn Nigeria on February 4, 1989. Santos beat home XI 2-1 in the match played in Benin City.

There was a bloody civil war in Nigeria at the time. War broke out when the state of Biafra tried to separate from the country.

According to Guilherm Guass, a researcher working on the history of the football club Santos FC, there was a lot of concern among Brazilian officials about sending players to Nigeria in such a situation. That is why the parties to the conflict agreed to a ceasefire.

However, many have recently questioned the veracity of this story. And, curiously, Pel’s autobiography, published in 1986, does not mention this incident.

Pel’s other autobiography, published 30 years later, mentions the “ceasefire.”

He wrote: “Players were informed that the civil war would be stopped for this exhibition match.”

“I don’t know if this is entirely true, but the Nigerians assured us that the Biafrans would not attack when we went to play there,” Pel wrote.

Pel moved to New York City in 1975 to play for the New York Cosmos Club.

I used to learn English in a language school there. One day he met John Lennon from the Beatles.

“Lennon went to that school to learn Japanese,” Pel wrote in 2008.

Pel said John Lennon told him that during the 1968 World Cup, Lennon and other Beatles artists wanted to go to the hotel and meet the Brazilian team. The World Cup was held in England.

Pel লে writes that the musicians tried to meet him and other members of the team at the time, but the directors of the Brazilian Football Association did not allow it.

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Pel’s critics say the Brazilian soccer star’s life has become much easier because he has never played for a European club.

While other notorious and famous Brazilian footballers have played for foreign clubs, Pel েলের has been banned from playing outside in the golden age of his career.

Clubs ranging from Real Madrid to AC Milan have also offered Santos FC to sign Pel. At that time, footballers had very few opportunities to talk about which club they would play for.

Pressure to keep Pel কে in Brazil also came from the highest levels of government: in 1981, then-President Janio Quadros declared Pel “a” “national asset” and issued a decree declaring him “no export.”

The Brazilian footballer later played for a foreign club. Only in 1985. At that time he joined the New York Cosmos, a soccer club in the United States.

Yes, you read that right. Pel wore the captain’s armband only once in his entire football career. Whenever she was offered to take over the captaincy of the club and the country, she always turned it down.

But the exception to this is Pel হয় at the age of 50.

That was in 1990, 19 years after he retired from national soccer.

The rest of the world had a friendly match with Brazil that year in Milan. Pel participated in it. The party was organized on the occasion of his 50th birthday. He was on the field for 45 minutes of the first half.

Brazil lost the match 2-1.

But the match was discussed in Brazil for one more reason: Brazilian Fluminense striker Rinaldo Pel had the opportunity to give away a goal. At that time Pel ছিলেন was standing in an empty place. But Ronaldo hit the ball off the post himself without passing the ball to Pel.

Later, Ronaldo told Globo Esporte, a Brazilian website, in 2010 that “he was a little upset with me.”

The Santos FC footballers were not happy to play in Trinidad and Tobago on September 5, 1982.

“There were a lot of riots at that time and we saw tanks moving in the streets,” defender Oberdan told the Brazilian daily Zero Hora in 2010.

“We agreed to play that game as soon as they assured us that we would get on the plane as soon as the game was over.”

But he scored 43 goals in the game. That’s when everything changed.

At the end of the match, the fans in the gallery of the Port of Spain Stadium ran onto the field, grabbed Pel কে on their shoulders and ran out onto the street.

It took some time to rescue Pel from there.

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Sylvester Stallone was at the height of his fame when the movie ‘Escape to Victory’ began shooting in 1970.

The film tells the story of a fictional soccer match between the Nazi XI and the prisoners during World War II.

Pel লেও also acted in the film. He was accompanied by several other professional footballers and former footballers such as Bobby Moore. Sylvester Stallone played the goalie role in that game.

In one scene in the photo, Pele gave an acrobatic kick on a bicycle. And it is known that he managed to get this kick out on the first shot.

Pel recently gave an interview to a Brazilian website UOL where he said that Stallone was supposed to score a goal in that movie.

“The original script for the movie, Stallone was the striker and they were supposed to shoot me,” Pel said.

“But Sylvester Stallone has never kicked in his life,” he said with a smile.

If Pel had played the role of goalkeeper in ‘Escape to Victory’, he would not have disappointed audiences at all.

In real life he was also an alternate goalkeeper for the club and the country. If the real goalkeeper got injured, he would come in his place to stop the goal.

Throughout his career, Santos wore goalkeeper gloves four times for the FC Club. He also had to be a goalkeeper in the semi-final of the 1974 Brazil Cup.

His team won every game and did not score a single goal.

Fans can happily sing “There’s only one!” But in fact, this is literally not entirely true.

Due to their popularity, many more of these names are found on and off the field around the world.

Abedi Pel লে is named after one of the most famous footballers in Africa. He has played for various clubs in Ghana and Europe.

Pedro Monteiro, a defender from Cape Verde who joined Southampton, England in 2006, was also known as Pel. This nickname he received in his childhood.

But what effect did soccer player Pel have on Brazilian society?

Edson is named after the Institute of Geography and Statistics, an institution of the Brazilian government.

They say Edson was the name of 43,511 people in Brazil in the 1950s. But two decades later, when Pel scored more than a thousand goals and won three World Cups, the number of people with that name amounted to more than 111,000.

Pel announced to journalists in 1990 that he would run for the 1994 presidential election in Brazil. But that did not happen.

However, he joined politics. He served as Brazil’s minister of sports for three years, from 1995 to 1996.

Under his leadership, some laws were enacted to give professional footballers some power to negotiate with clubs that footballers of their own generation did not have.