Pele

[Turkish]

Looks the end is close. Moved into palliative care as not responding to treatment for bowel cancer. Off chemo and just getting pain relief now 😢

[Whitey Grandad]

Sad to see the passing of one of the all time greats but he leaves us with such wonderful memories.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Pele was simply iconic when I grew up.

[saint1977]

Just a taste, stunningly powerful in the air too. Like a combination of George Best, MLT and Cristiano Ronaldo. Maradona like Ronaldo and Messi brilliant players but Pele the best ever all round forward player for me - 7, 9 and 10 rolled into one. 

 

[Turkish]

Gone 🥲

[johnnyboy]

RIP Pele a true legend

[Micky]

A true, true icon and legend of the game.  RIP Pele.

[Crab Lungs]

Rip Pele.

 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

A legend departs, but leaving plenty of memories of why he was the best.

[Jimmy_D]

Legend.

RIP

[farawaysaint]

Poor old bastard. A true great, even if he kept changing the stats to suit his mood he was a proper personality.

[sadoldgit]

When the word legend and the term GOAT get thrown around all too easily, this man’s name will always ring out and be at the top of the pile. Modern football started with him and the moves that so many have become famous for, like the Cruyff turn, invariably came from him initially. A truly great player and a great sportsman, not something that could be said of some of the other contenders for the crown. Those of us old enough to remember the classic World Cup of 1970 will recall the scenes at the end of the England v Brazil match where Bobby Moore, another giant of the game, and Pele paid mutual respect to one another.

RIP Pele. For many of my generation you will always be football’s GOAT.

 

[badgerx16]

A few World Cups ago, the school my wife taught in did a project on the WC. Jimmy Armfield came to the school sports day to show everybody his winners medal from 1966, and my wife had her class write to Pele to ask him about his memories of winning. I am not sure if he had any idea where Fleetwood is, but he became a pen pal to a bunch of 7 year old kids in a NorthWest Lancashire fishing town. From his writing he came across as a genuinely nice man.

[rooney]

A magnificent player and person. I remember leaving Newton Abbot Hospital early after the  birth of my youngest daughter to see the WC game V England in 1970 on TV. He congratulated Gordon Banks after that save . How many do that these days?

[skintsaint]

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fifa-wants-every-country-in-the-world-to-name-a-football-stadium-in-honour-of-pele/h3mtp79es

[Holmes_and_Watson]

On 03/01/2023 at 07:57, skintsaint said:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fifa-wants-every-country-in-the-world-to-name-a-football-stadium-in-honour-of-pele/h3mtp79es

We could...

https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/pele/