RIP Pele

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Sometimes a person leaves us who has been around throughout our life and deserved his reputation.

Watch: Seven reminders why Pele is a footballing great

BBC Sport selects seven of the finest moments from Pele's stellar career to illustrate just what makes him so special.

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I must confess that I am not a great football fan. But Pelé seems to have been around forever.

 

[Archibald]

I knew the basic facts, but the wikipedia page by itself is worth a read.

Pelé - Wikipedia

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And then there was Garrincha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrincha

Can somebody please explain how a guy with such ill-suited legs could play football that way ? I mean, he had one leg 2.5 inch shorter than the other, and both leg arched the wrong way around. And still the man did wonders.

btw our very own 1958 WC Pelé - Just Fontaine - is still alive and kicking, aged 89.

Mort de Pelé, l'hommage de Just Fontaine : "Il avait même signé des autographes à mes petits-enfants…"

Le plus que jamais recordman de buts en un seul Mondial (13, Suède-1958) et Toulousain d’adoption, Just Fontaine, 89 ans, s’était lié d’une vraie amitié avec le Roi Pelé. Lors d’un de nos précédents entretiens,...

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