What is Pelé’s legacy? – Football Weekly special
Football Weekly
The Guardian
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, |
| 0:15.6 | a special on the life of Pele, |
| 0:17.2 | possibly the greatest footballer ever. |
| 0:19.2 | Certainly feels like the first greatest footballer ever. |
| 0:22.8 | He won the World Cup as a 17-year-old in 1958, |
| 0:25.6 | scoring twice in the final. |
| 0:26.9 | He remains the only player to win it three times, |
| 0:28.8 | including the iconic 1970 team. |
| 0:31.3 | Everyone can picture that Brazil kit. |
| 0:33.5 | Everyone can picture that pasta, Carlos Alberto. |
| 0:36.7 | He's possibly the first footballer to become a cultural icon |
| 0:39.1 | on a global superstar. |
| 0:40.6 | Although debated, he scored a quite ludicrous number of goals, |
| 0:43.3 | mainly for Santos in Brazil, |
| 0:44.9 | literally all over the world in exhibition matches for them. |
| 0:47.9 | There was also the New York Cosmos years |
| 0:49.5 | and the Life Afterwoods as a sports minister, |
| 0:51.6 | the face of all number of advertising campaigns. |
| 0:54.0 | He wasn't picky. |
| 0:55.1 | Of the pitch, like many superstars, |
| 0:57.0 | he led a slightly chaotic life. |
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