70 Facts About Pele – Part 4
52. On the 1st of October 1977, the amazing Pele appeared in his last match as a footballer between his two teams, the American New York Cosmos and his former club, Santos. Astonishingly Pele played the first half for the New York Cosmos and the second part for Santos.
53. Another astonishing fact about Pele is that whenever he and Garrincha played together in the Brazilian national team then the squad never seemed to lose a match, literally!
54. Pele held the record for the most goals scored for the Brazilian National team for almost forty years and now he is only seconded by Ronaldo.
55. Pele netted the one hundredth goal for Brazil in the World Cup Tournament with a spectacular header into the goal posts.
56. In the nineteen eighties Pele had a football video game named after him and it was called "Pelé's Soccer".
57. Jose Landi-Jons a mixed martial arts fighter is nicknamed ‘Pele’ after the Brazilian legend.
58. d**k Brynestein, a Dutch artist made a drawing of Pele and called it Pietje Pele.
59. Pele’s presence in the United States of America boosted an average attendance in the soccer league by around 80% from 1975 to 1977 and this changed from around 7,600 to13, 600 viewers.
60. Pele scored his first ever hat-trick for Santos on the ninth of June 1957 in a club match against Lavras.
61. The Brazilian legend made his first appearance for the New York Cosmos on the 5th of June, 1975 against the Dallas Tornadoes. Pele scored his first goal in America in that match and the overall outcome of the match was a 2-2 draw.
62. The Brazilian also starred in a World War II drama called Escape to Victory and it was a about a prisoners of war team that used to play football against their n**i captors. Pele played the role of Corporal Luis Fernandez who was from Trinidad and Tobago and was the star striker.
63. Pele was the leading man in a 2005 campaign for Viagra and apparently broke the taboo on erectile dysfunction and spoke openly about getting treatment for such a problem.
64. Edson Buddle who is an American forward was named after Pele and on this account the player’s father commented by saying that he wanted to name his son Pele but he thought that this would be too pressurizing so he named him Edson which is a rather less known name of Pele.
65. In 1970 right before the start of the match Pele signalled the referee that he had to tie his laces. As the Brazilian had to start the match with a kick off and the cameras zoomed in to see what the star was doing. The boots company experienced an epic increase of sales right afterwards.
66. Pele has scored at least three or more goals in a single match around a hundred and twenty nine times during his luminous career.
67. The Brazilian star once commented on his nickname ‘Pele’ by saying that he never really liked it as it sounded like baby talk to him.
68. The Brazilian Star’s one thousandth goal was from a penalty shot and Romario also scored his one thousandth goal in the same manner but his goal tally is widely discredited and comes from a controversial record.
69. Paul Trevillion who is an artist once made a painting of Pele as an elephant.
70. The movie Citizen Kane which is widely accepted as one of the most defining films of cinema released worldwide on Pele’s birthday. Also in 2001 the release of the I Pod came in on the same day.
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