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“ We both went up for a header, I was taller than Pele, but when I came down and looked up, Pele was still on air! He had the ability to stay suspended in air as long as he wanted” Italian defender, Giacinto Fachhetti.
Pele is no more. That we all know and, also we know that there may not be another Pele on the earth anytime to come, the magician of football who never ceased to stun his rivals to impress let alone, his own men who admired him.
And what else can help ensemble a greater obituary than what came from his rival teams. They are just not in praise but sheer reverence.
“The moment the ball arrived at Pele’s feet, football transformed into poetry” that was from the Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Finding the inspiration of poetry in a football player and see that the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade felt like: “ the difficulty, the extraordinary, is not to score 1000 goals like Pele- it’s to score one goal like Pele”.
Much taller than the legend, Benfica goalkeeper Costa Pereira after 5-2 loss to Santos, it was spontaneous “ I 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”.
Who else can pitch a view other than another legend of like Michel Platini, “ There is Pele the man and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele, is to play like God” retied French star and three time Ballon d’ or winner.
Cristian Ronaldo who met the legend “ Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there will be only one Pele in the world”.
Oh! that was from Nelson Mandela, “ to watch him play was to watch the delight of a child combined with the extraordinary grace of a man in full”
That was a real stunner in 1970 when Italy’s Tarciso Burgnish after playing against Pele “ I told myself before the game, he’s made of skin and bones just like everyone else- but I was wrong”. Was that a take on a player or on a divinity.
RIP, Pelé. ??
Now the two greatest footballers can play together in heaven again. ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/SmKPbdbFU0
— Memeland (@Memeland) December 29, 2022
