Pelé, Brazilian soccer star and only player to win the World Cup three times, dies at age 82

MSN.com ^ | 12/29/2022 | Michele Luhn

[foreverfree]

Just missed him. I saw the Cosmos with Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia play the Philadelphia Fury at the Vet a couple of years after Pele retired. IIRC the Fury won. May the Black Pearl RIP.

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[Seruzawa]

Okay. He’s dead. But can he still vote in Brazil?

[chajin]

I went to Veterans’ Stadium in Philly when Pele was playing for the NY Cosmos in the NASL. Practically no one in the stands was there because of the Philadelphia Atoms.

The only similar experience I have had is when the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians were spring training in Winter Haven, and Michael Jordan was trying to be a White Sox: there were 9,000 at the Indians-White Sox game until Jordan was pulled in the fifth, at which point 8,000 left.

[scrabblehack]

The inspiration for his name was Hebrew/Aramaic, not
Hawaiian (there was some conjecture along those lines)?

[Ezekiel]

The inspiration for his name was Hebrew/Aramaic, not Hawaiian (there was some conjecture along those lines)?

I hadn't even thought to look it up. I was simply noting the word plays and description crossover with this year's blessing.

But thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. See, now I've gotta ping the longsuffering folks who might already be a tad perturbed at my infernal posts as it is.

Hopefully grace abounds out there, because as it turns out,

When he made saves, some compared him to Bile, a goalkeeper his father had played with. They began to call him Bile until his nickname evolved into Pele for good.

Pele himself admitted that he had never liked this pseudonym, since his real name 'Edson' came from the inventor Thomas Edison and he was proud of it. He even came to blows with the schoolmate who invented it, which resulted in a two-day suspension from school.

He also said that since it means nothing in his language, he thought it was an insult but that changed once he discovered that, in Hebrew, it means "miracle".

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His name took second place, as he was called Pele from an early age. After his three World Cups he also earned the nickname 'King'. The 1958 World Cup that brought Pele's Brazil to prominence was the first time the nickname 'O Rei' arrived.

Why was Pele called Pele, what is his real name and the origin of the nickname 'O'Rei'?

This stuff turns out to be more literal that even I would suspect.

Pelé’s crowning glory was a pass, one played with a nonchalant ease in the fading minutes of the World Cup final in 1970, a moment of glorious, acoustic simplicity from a player whose name had been made and whose legend had been burnished because of his mastery of the impossibly complex.

The pass itself was not easy because of Pelé’s quick, brilliant mind, or because of his flawless technique, or because of the economy of his movement. It was not a pass that he made look easy. It was, by the standards of those who can breathe in the rarefied air of a World Cup final, a pass that was easy.

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That it should be that version of Pelé that is most readily recalled is not because it represented his pinnacle but because it was the most easily accessible: 1970 was the first World Cup broadcast in vivid Technicolor — those bright yellow jerseys set against rich green fields — and beamed directly into millions of homes around the globe.

Pelé, a Name That Became Shorthand for Perfection

Pelé 'O Rei':

So, the simplest acronym for this year—תשפג—is “May it be a Year of Great Wonder” (תְּהֵא שְׁנַת פֶּלֶא גָּדוֹל). The “Great Wonder” that we are anticipating this year is the coming of Mashiach...

Pelé's fame is even pegged to 1970 via vivid Technicolor. Luv it!

Historian Thomas Hughes has attributed Edison's success to his development of an entire, integrated system of electric lighting.

It's like that meme:

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."

😀

~ EZ

[Tijeras_Slim]

Many “superstars” could learn a lot from him. A good gracious man.

[Tymesup]

My cousin was in a restaurant where people were crowded around Derek Jeter. All of a sudden, the crowd went in another direction, to crowd around Michael Jordan.

[Red Badger]

Bile = BEE-LAY which became PEELAY.......

[bruoz]

Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia were in that game also. It was Beckenbauer’s debute game with the Cosmos. BTW, the Tampa Bay Rowdies won!

[Ezekiel]

Bile = BEE-LAY which became PEELAY.......

Heh, good thing I'm a free bird. Because if I were a jailbird, I could only see sights and hear sounds, and not be able to see sounds and hear sights!

It was a Great Pele:

When describing the giving of the Torah, the verse states: “All the people saw the voices and the torches, the sound of the shofar, and the smoking mountain.” How do you see “the voices, the torches, and the sound of the shofar”? In his commentary, Rashi explains, “They saw what is usually heard.” The Jews experienced a moment of synesthesia: they were able to see the thunder and hear the lightning that accompanied the giving of the Torah. Seeing the Sounds

American Progress

Speaking of ropes, the total round up, hwys without roads and so forth... here's a fun detail about the date of the famous first telegraph message:

Fri, 24 May 1844 -- 6 Sivan 5604

Which was

Shavout, the wheat harvest, the total round up:

Torah Given (1313 BCE)

On the 6th Sivan of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), seven weeks after the Exodus, G-d revealed Himself on Mount Sinai. The entire people of Israel (600,000 heads of households and their families), as well as the souls of all future generations of Jews, heard G-d declare the first two of the Ten Commandments and witnessed G-d's communication of the other eight through Moses. Following the revelation, Moses ascended the mountain for 40 days, to receive the remainder of the Torah from G-d.

(Also is the traditional date for the passing and birth of King David)

The message being,

"What hath God wrought?" Taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23...

The success of the experiment would change forever the national communication system.

Sent on Shavous, but read on the Thursday during the week of Parshat Balak:

Chumash -- Parshat Balak, 5th Portion (Numbers 23:13-23:26)

Thank you for the opportunity to post these important details, for the public record. If it weren't in the Megillah, who would believe it?

Don't get me started on Peels. 😉