Saturday, October 7, 2017

SOME TRUE FACTS OF PELE.

1)Pele was named after Thomas Edison, his real name is Edison Arantes Do Nascimanto. But Pele is his pet name. This is a Portuguese name. 2) He was born to simple family , and was born in a area of Brazil known for the evil and violent life around the place, it was known for drugs, drug lords, gangsters, murder ,alchahol and of course prostitution, and it was easy for boys to fall into this trap easily. 3) At school he started a football team called THE SHOELESS BOYS . As one of them could afford a football boot or for the matter a football. 4) They used a grapefruit, put in a socks stuffed with paper and old cloth. 5) He gets his pet name Pele from the goalkeeper of the Brazilian club Vasco Da Gama, who was n Bile.. But Pele could not pronounce it , he always pronounced Bile as Pele and the school boys called him Pele, and it stuck. 6) As a boy he used t shoes of of the footballers. 7) Pele is the only footballer to win three world cups. 8) He is the only footballer to score over a thousand goals in his glittering career. He has scored1281, one thousand two d eighty-one goals , 1396 games

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