How will Pele be remembered? | Inside Story
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- The king of football... that's what Brazilians called him.
They're observing three days of mourning after Pele died on Thursday following a long battle with cancer.
The 82 year old played a crucial role as football rose to become the most popular sport on the planet.
Pele played in four World Cups and was the only player in history to win three.
But his legacy stretched far beyond his haul of trophies and record of remarkable goal-scoring.
As football is the most popular sport in the world, how will he be remembered?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom
Guests:
Fernando Kallas, Brazilian sports journalist. Fernando has covered three World Cups.
James Varley, communications consultant and founder of Varley Media. James is the grandson of British news photographer John Varley who took the famous shot of Pele and Bobby Moore at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
Maher Mezahi, football journalist covering Africa.
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Greatest football player of all time!
Pele is the GREATEST and here's why..
These are just a few thoughts and facts of my own to add to the many outpourings of love and appreciation to the man who first described the game of football as... "THE BEAUTIFUL GAME"
As well as being only seventeen during the 1958 world cup, Pele did not play in any of the group stage games because he was recovering from a pre-tournament injury, yet he ended up being the tournament's second-top goalscorer with a total of 6 goals.
In other words, all his goals were scored during the business end of the tournament (the knockout stage) and breakdown as follows...
His first goal was scored in the quarter-final (the winning goal), he then score a hat trick in the semi-finals against France, and two more goals in the World Cup final against tournament host Sweden.
Think about it, 6 goals in the 3 most important games of his 17-year-old life (and the 3 most important games every professional footballer dreams of getting a chance to play in (wow!!).
A SIDE NOTE: I was a little bit disappointed that nobody appeared to notice the trivial but nonetheless very interesting fact about a particular game featured in the recent 2022 World Cup...
There was an awful lot of fanfare surrounding the Wales vs USA matchup, because it was the first time Wales were to play in a World Cup finals competition since 1958, where they suffered a hard-fought 1- 0 defeat to Brazil at the quarterfinal stage.
And who do you think scored the single solitary goal?... yes you guess it, 17 year old Pele!!
Pele's very first game (and goal) in the 1958 World Cup would be Wales's last world cup game for 68 years. And as fate would have it, he would get to witness their return just before he died.
Brazil was just another country in 1958, with no name or reputation to speak of on the world stage. By 1970 (just 12 years and 3 world Cups wins later) Brazil was known and celebrated by one and all (to this day) as the best, most important footballing nation in the world. A reputation that has enriched the Brazilian nation with billions of Dollars in football-related trade and sponsorships. I doubt that anyone person has had such an impact on his countries reputation/economic situation in such a short space of time.
Neymar's response to Pele's passing was to point out another very simple fact, "Before Pele, the number 10 was just a number"
Maradona or Messi, it doesn't matter. The skill Pele's displays in his football highlight reels is the most impressive of all (in my opinion) or at the very least stand-up alongside the compilation videos of the best wearers of the number 10 shirt and R9 and CR7 shirt.
But Pele's played in the late 1950s and 60s when only major games were recorded and televised, so his compilation videos are only made up of about 40% of the games he played in, meaning that most of his best work was either not recorded or has been lost (his greatest ever goal for example). So what we see in his completion videos are not even a full and frank reflection of what he did on the football field. In other words every great thing that Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar etc has ever done on a football field can be found somewhere in their many completion videos. The same cannot be said for Pele.
There are lots more facts that could be added such as Pele only played 12 years for the Brazilian national team, the world cup winning years (1958 to 1970). They would not win another world cup for 24 years. His club side Santos won 27 trophies during Pele's era (1957-74), having won only 1 trophy before his arrival and none for the 28 years after he retired.
And this might also surprise you...
Santos is the biggest name in Brazilian club football and one of the best know football clubs around the world, yet Santos home stadium has the capacity of a minor league football team that you might expect to find languishing in the second or third tire.
Where Man Utd, Real Madrid, AC Millan, Barcelona etc all have stadiums in excess of 60 thousand, Santos Stadium capacity is less than 17 thousand. This is because Santos is, and always has been a small town club, that Pele put on the map and made big in the eyes of the world.
BUT WHO IS THE GREATEST FOOTBALLER OF ALL TIME????????...
Ok, I think we can tidy up that discussion here as well....
All boxing fan agree that Sugar Ray Robinson is the best pound-for-pound boxer of all time...
.. but everyone knows that Muhammad Ali is the GREATEST!!
Yes it is actually possible to be the best but not great or be great but not the best. Sugar Ray Robinson is great and clearly is the BEST boxer that ever lived (his record and impressive fight footage speak for themselves) but in light of what Muhammed Ali's achieved and his impact both in and out of the ring, Sugar Ray cannot be considered greater. If what Sugar Ray did in boxing makes him the greatest boxer ever then what superlatives must we use to describe Ali's legacy????...
THE BEST vs THE GREATEST
Who is the best and who is the greatest, are more often than not, one and the same, but not in all instances.
Sugar Ray Robinson is undisputedly the BEST pound-for-pound boxer ever (Ali said so himself) but Muhammed Ali is (and will always be) the GREATEST boxer/sporting personality to ever have walked among us.
You'd have to be so much more than the best in your particular sport to even be considered a worthy contender to Ali. Sugar Ray was a great fighter but Muhammed Ali was something even more, he was greatness personified.
Less we forget that in 1999 a huge voting campaign was launched across the world to discover who the world considered the greatest sports man of the 20th century. Not only did Muhammed Ali win the public vote, nobody even came close. He scored more votes than all the other great sporting celebrities of the last hundred years (including Pele) "COMBINED."
The point I'm trying to get across is that, you might be able to make a stronger case for claiming Maradona, Messi, or Ronaldo the BEST footballers ever but Pele's legacy as the world's first truly global SPORTS icon (not just the first global football, or black icon), his skill and ability on the field, his impact on the beautiful history of the beautiful game (as stated here) should leave no one in any doubt as to who is footballs GREATEST son...
Edson Arantes Do Nascimento (Pele)
RIP
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I couldn't have said nor explain it better as to why Pele is and will always be the greatest. Thank you for enlightening the world of Pele greenness! A fan from the beautiful tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝🌅🏖🇧🇸
Pele the biggest greatest player of all time !
3 world 🌍 cup is not a Joke 🔥💯
The greatest athlete in history. The GOAT of the GOATs.
The greatest football player of all time and his legacy remains forever
The best player of all time.
Rip Pele, the greatest footballer of all time.
He beautified the beautiful game ,long King Pele.
Pele has the best claim as the best player in history. England invented the sport in 1863, but thanks to geniuses like Pele and Garrincha Brazil invented the art of soccer-football or what some call jogo bonito and beautiful game, making Brazil a household name globally in the sport in 1958. Brazil is known for soccer-football, samba, carnival and even with its ups and downs, it is a source of pride in Brazil history as its most famous athlete. Pele possibly is the most famous Brazilian in the world, also the best player in Brazil history and best player in the sports history. A global icon, artist with the ball, actor and musician and global ambassador of the game who set examples for the youth on and off the pitch with his smile and humility and wonderful personality. I don't know what the legacies of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Mbappe, Erling Haaland careers until they retire or what the future holds, but Pele world records, world titles, goal scoring makes him the best player of all time and the biggest king in the sports history. We did have many kings in the sport since 1930 when the first world championship in Uruguay and to the 22nd in Qatar in the middle east. Pele was a revolutionary player and rare talent and genius and will be very much missed.
A man with a God-given talent, one of the names who will remain forever in the memory, RIP, legend 🕊💔🇧🇷
Pele transcends many boundaries : He is beyond football, beyond Brazil, and beyond generations. Pele and Ali are the greatest sport icons in history.
BTW, the blue and yellow of Pele's iconic uniform is reminiscent of Ukraine's flag. So very inspirational!
FIFA should rename the world cup after Pele!
RIP GOAT
I wish his statue to be place in every stadium across the world he is his a great sport man
Pelé was great player in football first time that I saw 👀 him it was World Cup in 2002 South Korea 🇰🇷 and Japan 🇯🇵 were hosted it Rest In Peace ✌️
Pelé is the Ali of football. 🏆🏆🏆
RIP Pelé 🙏
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May God bless his sporty soul.
Pele's influence on the game is so wide spread, Yellow and red cards were introduced to stop players hacking Pele down and tackling him as they do in rugby or American football when it came to a point that he refused to play international football anymore to avoid the violence against people practiced with impunity and no interest in the touching the ball. When a player is shown a yellow or red card or a referee takes out a card, Pele's footprint and influence on the game is being witnessed. When you talk of number of goals he scored you are not including the number of goals that were disallowed which were perfectly fine that should be added to that list and which are so obviously goals, and how many more goals would have taken place if he was not hacked down with impunity and no interest in the ball just before he took his shot to score. Without this his records would have been extended even further. 126 goals in a season!! You can compare Pele with players today despite the period difference because everything he did then would have worked now against present defenders as the same skills are being used against them now and it is the same skills against defenders still working now and the conditions were much harder in that time with the ball, the shoes, the ground and the having to deal with being hacked down blatantly with no sending off or cards. It's an insult to ever say 'Pele was arguably the greatest player' or 'one of the greatest players' (as Lineker likes to say), because forget football, there is not a sportsman in history that has ever been so influential to a sport. He affected the game, not only in the standards he set and records he achieved which still to this day half a century later have not been unachieved by anybody else who has played the game, but also in how the game should be played by him doing everything every other football player has ever done since in a recorded football match. It's astonishing how he managed to do and cover everything and every skill outside goal keeping, and you cannot find another football player that can make this claim even today however great people may say that football player is. Pele's standards for the game were such that he did not just take attacking play to the highest level an attacker can take it, but he participated in defensive play and tackling to levels even the best defenders today would be proud of which is something that even today is unheard of for any attacking player. That is what his standard for what a great football player is and a standard the future of football aspires to reach, but it is a standard others cannot even dream of achieving today and so standards are diminished or dropped to what is achievable for others so they too can be called great. Even with this compromise his standards are still too high for others when he says that to be great you must be great at everything to do with the ball, for example 1) your ability to use both feet as good as the other and to the greatest ability including, controlling the ball and shooting near or long range (just as is expected of a great pianist to use both hands as good as the other), 2) heading the ball to the greatest ability, be you controlling it or attacking the ball in various ways such as jumping, diving or standing still when heading the ball, 3) dribbling to the greatest ability past one player, through a crowd of players in close proximity or running at speed dribbling past dispersed players, 4) passing to the greatest ability, to create assists, accurate short and long passes, 5) tackling to the greatest ability, 6) acrobatic achievements such as bicycle kicks to solve difficult challenges, and so on. These are the standards that brought Pele 3 world cups as one of the great records he achieved that have proved almost unbreakable. But here again standards are dropped and diminished because these are standards expected in one player only he could achieve and do so to the greatest ability. Indeed Pele showed us the future of football and what is achievable for a player to become and though it has been great and taken football to great heights following him as he led by example, there is still the dream that one day we can see a football match where every football player on the pitch bares the standards set by Pele and we will no longer have to lower the bar or diminish or drop standards on what a great football player is or can achieve. That is the dream and that is Pele's dream. What a crazy football match that will one day be. Pele taught us the beautiful game and we are still learning to make it as beautiful as he dreamed it could be, but he has also shown us a football dream we hope one day can be achieved. It's like he is colour television and we are all still playing in Black and White. He is football and he is the dream. The greatest football player ever and of all time without a question. No one is equal, better or greater, not even close. When other players retire, it's over, but Pele and his influence on the game and every player that plays in lives on and shines after every whistle is blown to start a match. Thank you God for the gift that was Pele. Rest in peace. Peace and love
Spot on. No one even comes close to Pele.
He lived the most fulfilled life. Loved , honored , adored all over the world. As black man we owe him so much. We celebrate his sprit. Pele is World's treasure ❤❤❤
The most beautiful and amazing thing about Pelé , he is a black man ❤❤❤
R.I.P. Abay D .Pele .You have done a lot in world football and peace of mind entertainment
RIP REI 🤴🏿
1000 worldwide champion 🏆 league trophies, cannot equal to a world cup trophy 🤔 !
Pele was a god of football d greatest of all time 🙏🚀💖 3 time world cup winner
Pele was a symbol of love, peace, and friendliness for the whole world. He did not want to take side and see himself firstly as a blackman or person of color. He saw it as his obligation to spread unity and worked hard through global sports as an ambassador of the universe.
THEY SHOULD RENAMED FOOTBALL TO PELE,
FROM A YOUNG TEENAGER HE BE CAME A SUPERSTAR, HE CREATED TRICKS AND SKILLS AND MADE THE INTERNATIONAL GAME OF FOOTBALL MOST WATCH SPORT ON THE PLANET,
PELE WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME, PELE IS THE KING ,ALL OVER THE PELE IS WORSHIP, ITS THE NEW GENERATIONS THAT IS THINKING OTHERWISE,
THE BLACKSTONES/BRAFA SQUARE
Pele Pele was amazing 💯
it's sad, he was such a nice guy too
PELE RIP 💔💔💔
May his soul rest in peace
To me, Pele will be remembered as Mr. Football / To his teammates and countrymen, he will be remembered as a Godsend / To his opponents, he will be remembered as both a nightmare and a wonder / To the world, he will be remembered as gift / To his family, he will be remembered as son, brother, father, grandfather and great grandfather!!!
The beautiful game great one has died. R I P Pele! Now wouldn't it be a fitting tribute to Pele if FIFA would now name The F I F A world cup Trophy: The Pele World Cup Trophy 🏆? A suggestion from the beautiful, tranquil Islands of The Bahamas 🏝️🌅🏖️🇧🇸
Pele completed football. The biggest question in sports is; Can you do it again? Pele satisfied this question, he did it again, and again, and again, without anyone doubting the credibility of his achievements.
Obrigado Al Jazeera !!
I MANAGED TO WATCH PELE PLAY IN 1976 IN KENYA
Tainted by the Al Jazeera racism
The King. RIP, O Rei 😢😢😢😢😢
Pele, El Rey de futbol!
May his soul rest in perfect peace
rip pele an icon and inspiration for me i must learn more about his biography and try to put some hopefully learn and absorb something of his world beating minset and qualities
RIP 🙏🏿 The goat 🐐
Just by being very serious and committed to his craft is the biggest exemple he ever have to minorities around the world.
9:30 yes there was racism in Brazil but tot as much as in other countries, that’s why Pelé played and became the King
For a very very very long time ⚽️
Each of us has a role to play in protecting our planet 🌏🌍
In loving memory of Pele he was the peoples hero especially to us black and brown folk all over the world ..them white folks was mad when he was going out with xuxia ..R.I.p brother
Pelé è il calcio e il calcio è Pelé il calcio si dovrà chiamare Pelé o Rey è stato il migliore di tutti e di tutti di gran lunga ci vorranno tanti tanti tanti anni forse un secolo o più prima di rivedere un d'altro del suo livello r i p incomparabile immenso unico e magico Pelé vivrai nei cuori eternamente love love love love love great Pelé ci riinvotrerrmo sicuro ciao Italia
NAME A GAME (A POEM, FOR PELÉ)
To name a monument for me
I am the wind in every tree
I am the sand on every shore
That turns up timely at your door
I am the ebb, I am the flow
I am the give, I am the go
I am the child who wants to say,
To read at night and play all day
I am every sleeping babe, a gurgling stream, man in the shade
I am the fire, I am the sun
I am the song kids sing along
The smoke that rises from the yards
A drink for Bacchus and his cards
I am the street, I am the road
And every heart with mirth or load
To name a day, you name a night
To name a wrong, you name a right
I can be here, I can be there
Spare me a thought, of that I care
If you are short or you are tall
I am the foot, I am the ball.
(By Desmond Dorman)
30DEC2022
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I guess as a "soccer" player, not football. But nowadays we use these terms exchangeable
Give report on india ..uttrakand people. Is government demolished 4000 houses..
We all have a role to play in Keeping the Promise of the Global Goals⚽
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What's your role to keeping the promises of Allah(swt).
What a racist coverage, instead of showing the greatness of Pele, it reduces it to race restricted view. Pele did not speak of race because he was not a racist, he treated everyone as equals and wanted a world were people put aside differences instead of this constant hammering on the subject that only drive people apart which is in vogue nowadays.
Apart from Brazil, which tribe he come from in Nigeria?
Brasil had a deep history of segregation??? What BS!!! lol. No Segregation in Brasil's history!! And you in the Middle East are talking about Brasil having a deep history of Slavery????? lol
How ignorant!
Pele was overrated
He was a god of football ! Messi Ronaldo etc are kids compare to Grt pele
The game football during PELE TIMES was one hundred percent tuffer, Rougher than this generations PLAYING NOW, Cause all those players in the 50s and 60s did not have YELLOW AND RED CARDS to stop players from BREAKING ANY PART OF THEIR BODY, UNLIKE THIS GENERATIONS,
NEW TV TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE THE GAME OF FOOTBALL LOOKS MORE BETTER THAN BEFORE,
GREATEST OF ALL KING PELE,
ESPECIALLY BEENI A YOUNG BLACK MAN, HE HAD TO BE FANTASTIC TO BE GIVEN THE KING OF FOOTBALL, THINK ABOUT .
pelè is powerfull he sacrified his life to cancel the winner in quatar