Dobromir zhechev pele biography
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In , his company Pelé Sports & Marketing (founded in with a friend called Helio Viana) was accused of financial corruption in connection with an aborted benefit match for UNICEF. One of Pelé's business partners had allegedly procured a $, loan. When the charity game never took place there were, in Pelé's words, "problems in retrieving the money". Pelé, more horrified than anyone, ordered an audit of his company, then closed it down. UNICEF has stated emphatically that there was no wrongdoing on his part. But the ensuing publicity, he concedes, "was terrible".
A principal interest of Pelé Sports & Marketing was the securing of broadcast rights to major events, among them the Brazilian championship. Pelé claimed, in an interview the previous year, that the Brazilian Football Confederation, run then as now by Ricardo Teixeira, had asked for a $1m bribe. Teixeira was the son-in-law of then FIFA President João Havelange.
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Celebrating Pele, the greatest player in World Cup history
It is a matter of opinion whether Edson Arantes do Nascimento was the greatest footballer in the history of the world, but there’s little doubt he was the greatest footballer in the history of the World Cup. One simple fact concisely demonstrates that: Pele won it three times. No one else in history, man or woman, can match that.
There was more to Pele than simply the World Cup. At club level, he won six Brazilian titles, two Copa Libertadores trophies and remains Santos’ all-time top goalscorer. He subsequently starred in the North American Soccer League for New York Cosmos. But no one has ever matched Pele’s World Cup record, achieved when international football, rather than club football, was unquestionably the most revered form of the game.
Pele was nine years old when Brazil suffered a shock loss to Uruguay at the Maracana in the final, surely the most devastating defeat any nation has suffered in a World Cup. In the
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Long Pass Speed: 75
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Curling: 68
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Keeper Skills: 50
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