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Soccer icon Pelé dead at 82 after health battles
New York Post ^
| December 19th, 2022
| Don Burke
Posted on 12/29/2022 11:09:11 AM PST by shadowlands1960
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Legend...
To: shadowlands1960
Never heard a bad thing about him.
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posted on
12/29/2022 11:10:11 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: shadowlands1960
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12/29/2022 11:10:42 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: shadowlands1960
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12/29/2022 11:12:31 AM PST
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PGR88
To: shadowlands1960
Rest in PEACE, Pele!.....................
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posted on
12/29/2022 11:13:51 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: shadowlands1960
To: PGR88
Pele put the beauty in the beautiful game. First ran man from all appearances also.
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12/29/2022 11:18:16 AM PST
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Jolla
To: Jolla
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12/29/2022 11:18:44 AM PST
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Jolla
To: Jolla
Of course he was famous for scoring goals. But he was also the guy that made the final pass for Carlos Alberto's goal in the 1970 WC Final, which some call the greatest goal ever...
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12/29/2022 11:19:27 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: shadowlands1960
My impression of soccer when a kid was that most Americans were hardly aware it existed as a sport outside of HS gym class, until Pele’ came along. He did a lot to popularize the sport in this country.
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posted on
12/29/2022 11:20:47 AM PST
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shadowlands1960
(We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
To: shadowlands1960
To: shadowlands1960
RIP. The Greatest Soccer Player Ever. He definitely expanded the game’s appeal. All fo Brazil is in mourning I’m sure.
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posted on
12/29/2022 11:21:27 AM PST
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Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: shadowlands1960
To: shadowlands1960
I saw him play in Sao Paulo in the 1960s. He was wonderful to watch so totally in control of the ball and so fluid in his movements. Like a seasoned ballet dancer.
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12/29/2022 11:23:58 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
To: shadowlands1960
It was 1950 and Brazil, appearing in soccer’s World Cup for the first time, had just been beaten by Uruguay. “My father was crying with a lot of Brazilians,” the man better known as Pelé remembered. “My father used to say, men should be strong. Men doesn’t cry. Then I saw my father cry when Brazil lost the game.
I watched Brasil play The Netherlands in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinal at a local Brasilian restaurant with the local Brasilian community. Brasil lost and yes, a lot of grown men were in tears.
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12/29/2022 11:24:48 AM PST
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Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: shadowlands1960
The true GOAT as opposed to fake goats like Lebron and some nasty female American gymnast. RIP, Sir Pele.
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12/29/2022 11:26:31 AM PST
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nwrep
To: shadowlands1960
To: shadowlands1960
In 1979 my college soccer team was a club. None of the players were openly gag, and we all had the Pele poster on our dorm walls. It was all about the love of the game.
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posted on
12/29/2022 11:27:54 AM PST
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BarbM
(Men who look at porn are impotent to God.)
To: Rummyfan
2014 Semifinal was probably worse.
Germany put in 7 goals in the first half…
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12/29/2022 11:29:20 AM PST
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EEGator
To: nwrep
And as good as Messi is, calling him the “GOAT” is just flat out ridiculous, people who have no concept of the history of the game.
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12/29/2022 11:34:17 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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