Cobra celebrates the birthday of the legend “Pele” with a huge mural

Brazilian artist Eduardo Cobra celebrates legend Pelé’s birthday with a huge 800-square-meter mural in Santos, as part of the 80th anniversary of the legendary soccer player Pelé’s birth, next Friday.

Brazilian artist Eduardo Cobra is an artist whose social work “graffiti” dominated world attention.

As legend Pelé approaches his birthday, the side wall of the futuristic Santos tourist activity center, on the São Paulo coast, and the home of the team for which Pelé played for almost two decades, has become a huge open-air art gallery.

The huge mural represents the football legend and 3 other interests of Santos residents: the tourist tram, the historic building of the Coffee Museum and the city’s port.

To achieve this remarkable work of art, Cobra worked about 10 hours a day for 45 days non-stop and used more than 300 aerosol cans.

Cobra celebrates Pele’s birthday with a huge mural

The legend tweeted to his fans on the social network “Twitter”: “I learned from my father as a child that football is a tool for good. My father taught me that lesson when he saw me dribbling with a weaker opponent without any necessity and asked me to always respect my competitor. I took this for the rest of my life, always using my talent for love and peace.

Pelé, the legend, is reported to have hardly left his home in Brazil since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, but appeared in good health on a recording.

The experts considered Pelé as the legend as the greatest of all football stadiums, and in the love of the fans, Maradona and Lionel Messi contested him for this overwhelming love.

Pelé was born on October 23, 1940 in Tres Curaços, Brazil, soccer legend Pelé became a star with his performance at the 1958 World Cup, and starred as Pelé played professionally in Brazil for two decades and won three Cups. of the World during his career, before joining. New York Cosmos.

Cobra celebrates Pele’s birthday with a huge mural

Named the FIFA Player of the Century in 1999, he is a global ambassador for football and other humanitarian issues, and is now known as “the legend.”