“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.”

— Pelé

Quoted in "SI Flashback: Soccer's greatest genius" Sports Illustrated, (1 June 1999)

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Brazilian association football player 1940–2022

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