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The best Pele profile you'll ever hear (a Soccer 101 teaser)

Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...

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Sports, Unknown, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Did Pele really score 1,000 goals? What particular set of skills made him such a formidable striker? How did this this 5-foot-8 guy score so many headers? In this profile of Pele, we answer as many questions as we can about the most famous soccer player of all time. Of course, this is only half of the full episode. To listen to the full show, use whatever app you're using right now to search for our new show, Soccer 101, and listen there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Soccer 101.

0:23.5

My name is Darryl Groove and sitting across the table from me, it's Taylor Aquel.

0:28.4

Hello.

0:29.4

My friend and today we are here to talk, Petlay.

0:32.0

I'm out of film.

0:33.0

I imagine you have because he's one of the best players of all time, unless you're Diego

0:36.4

Maradona in which case you don't read him.

0:38.5

But what is it about him that makes him so special?

0:41.5

Why do people who maybe don't know much else about soccer or really anything about soccer?

0:45.0

They know that name, Pele.

0:46.4

Yeah, my wife's father knows the name Pele.

0:48.9

Probably couldn't name another soccer player.

0:50.7

That sounds about right.

0:51.7

And so while other players from the 50s, 60s, 70s have maybe faded from our memories a little

0:56.0

bit, Pele kind of stays front and center in our collective soccer minds.

1:00.0

I mean, you said that.

1:01.0

I've got a vow poster.

1:02.0

I'm sure you do.

1:04.0

So we've done the research.

1:05.5

We've watched the footage.

1:07.1

We are now here to determine why exactly he is so special, why he stays in our minds to

1:11.6

this day.

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