Pele

Edison Arantes do Nascimento is by far my favorite soccer player. Better known as Pele. He was born in Brazil. His nickname was Dico until he started attending school, then he was called Pele. Pele grew up very poor, and earned extra money working in tea shops as a servant. But still could not a afford money for a soccer ball. So he used either a sock stuffed with newspaper or a grapefruit. After that he started playing for clubs, and started to get very good. But still even when he was older he never got drafted to play for a professional soccer team, people thought he was not that good I guess. But they were very very wrong. He finally got drafted, and played for Brazil for his national team in the world cup, and lead his team to victory for 4 gold world cup trophies in 1958,1962,1966,1970. Even though he died when he was 71 his legend will still live on...