Great response! Pelé coming to the US was a HUGE kick start to soccer in this country and I will never forget him kicking a ball with President Gerald Ford at the White House.
You are probably right about the other players that you mentioned as well, and given some distance from their remarkable achievements we will absolutely see them in even higher regard than we already do.
That said, "Pelé: Birth of a Legend" is just a terrible movie... but I am trying not to hold that against him.
". I felt like I was hearing from Pelé that the key to becoming a great soccer player is wearing shoes."
It was just a movie, but in a movie about Pele, one of the memorable scenes was he was playing with the neighborhood poor kids, against the rich kids in a tournament. His team didn't have shoes or uniforms. And they didn't want to be made fun of . They rather crookedly got shoes, but weren't use to them, and they didn't fit.
By half time, they were losing badly. Pele took off his shoes, scored amazing goals and the team came back to within one goal.
Kinda random, but what should I believe about shoes being obvious.
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Great response! Pelé coming to the US was a HUGE kick start to soccer in this country and I will never forget him kicking a ball with President Gerald Ford at the White House.
You are probably right about the other players that you mentioned as well, and given some distance from their remarkable achievements we will absolutely see them in even higher regard than we already do.
That said, "Pelé: Birth of a Legend" is just a terrible movie... but I am trying not to hold that against him.
". I felt like I was hearing from Pelé that the key to becoming a great soccer player is wearing shoes."
It was just a movie, but in a movie about Pele, one of the memorable scenes was he was playing with the neighborhood poor kids, against the rich kids in a tournament. His team didn't have shoes or uniforms. And they didn't want to be made fun of . They rather crookedly got shoes, but weren't use to them, and they didn't fit.
By half time, they were losing badly. Pele took off his shoes, scored amazing goals and the team came back to within one goal.
Kinda random, but what should I believe about shoes being obvious.