{"id":10645,"date":"2015-10-23T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2015-10-23T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:46:11","slug":"what-they-said-about-pele-the-goat-of-global-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=10645","title":{"rendered":"What They Said About Pele, THE GOAT OF GLOBAL SOCCER"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pele\"\u201cThe greatest goal I ever scored was a one-two with Celeste \u2013 we named him Edson Arantes do Nascimento.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Dondinho, Pele\u2019s father<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I told myself before the game, ‘he’s made of skin and bones just like everyone else’. But I was wrong.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Tarcisio Burgnich, the Italy defender who marked Pele in the Mexico 1970 Final<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Ronald Reagan, I\u2019m the President of the United States of America. But you don\u2019t need to introduce yourself, because everyone knows who Pele is.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Ronald Reagan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe difficulty, the extraordinary, is not to score 1,000 goals like Pele \u2013 it\u2019s to score one goal like Pele.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest player in history was Di Stefano. I refuse to classify Pele as a player. He was above that.”<\/strong>
\n Ferenc Puskas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn some countries they wanted to touch him, in some they wanted to kiss him. In others they even kissed the ground he walked on. I thought it was beautiful, just beautiful.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Clodoaldo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the fifth goal, even I wanted to cheer for him.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Sigge Parling of Sweden on a 5-2 defeat by Brazil in the 1958 FIFA World Cup Final<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI arrived hoping to stop a great man, but I went away convinced I had been undone by someone who was not born on the same planet as the rest of us.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Costa Pereira on Benfica\u2019s 5-2 loss to Santos in the 1962 Intercontinental Cup in Lisbon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pele was the greatest \u2013 he was simply flawless. And off the pitch he is always smiling and upbeat. You never see him bad-tempered. He loves being Pele.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Tostao<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw Pele play, it made me feel I should hang up my boots.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Just Fontaine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPele was so focused on winning the Trophy. It was like he knew it was his destiny. He was like a child waiting for Santa Claus.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Mario Americo, Brazil’s masseur, on Mexico 1970<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPele was one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Andy Warhol<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou may be right. But you know nothing about football and I\u2019ve seen Pele play.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Brazil coach Vicente Feola to the psychologist who said Pele was too immature to play at Sweden 1958<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Johan Cruyff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHis great secret was improvisation. Those things he did were in one moment. He had an extraordinary perception of the game.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Carlos Alberto Torres<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI sometimes feel as though football was invented for this magical player.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Sir Bobby Charlton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pele played football for 22 years, and in that time he did more to promote world friendship and fraternity than any other ambassador anywhere.\u201d<\/strong>
\n J.B. Pinheiro<\/em>, the Brazilian ambassador to the United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Malcolm Allison: \u201cHow do you spell Pele?\u201d<\/strong>
\n Pat Crerand: \u201cEasy: G-O-D.\u201d<\/strong>
\n British television commentators during Mexico 1970<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GOAT OF GLOBAL SOCCER, FUTBOL.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe greatest goal I ever scored was a one-two with Celeste \u2013 we named him Edson Arantes do Nascimento.\u201d Dondinho, Pele\u2019s father “I told myself before the game, ‘he’s made of skin and bones just like everyone else’. But I was wrong.\u201d Tarcisio Burgnich, the Italy defender who marked Pele in the Mexico 1970 Final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,1006,13,14,1,108,7,9,10],"tags":[498,1007,882,46],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-futbol","category-health","category-most-commented","category-news","category-soccer-sports-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","tag-futbol","tag-goat-of-global-soccer","tag-pele","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}