You may do anything for your country, if you want it. World suppose to know who is Pele. Edson Arantes do Nascimento is known as Pele. He was a great player from Brazil. He was a fighter. Now, Pele is known as a football legend.
He was born on October 23th, 1940. Pele played football for almost 37 years. He started his junior career in Bauru AC and continued to Santos and New York Cosmos. He made a wonderful career of football. He was not coming from rich family, but he wasn't giving up to football.
On 1952, he would play for Bauru. But, at that time, he had no football shoes. So, he used some newspapers to cover his foot and made it as a shoes. He would do anything for football, there was nobody could stop him even his mother. He had a big dream to win the world cup. That's why I called him as a fighter.
In fact, Pele is the only player who got 3 world cups with his country, Brazil. It was an incredible achievement for a football player. Not only that, he became the football player who made the most goal ever with 1284 goals on his career. It makes him become a football legend.
I called him as a hero because he inspired almost all black footballers. He motivated them that if you want to get something you should never give up on that. You have to keep trying until the end. You may look from his history. How can he got all of his achievements? Because he never gave up and keep tried.
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