Pele has Passed Away at 82 Years Old

I am sure that without Pelé football wouldn't be as relevant as it is today and something much bigger, it wouldn't be the best and most practiced sport in the world. He changed something and opened the way for all the cracks that came after. May his soul rest in peace and may his memory live on.

PS: Pelé, Maradona, Cruyff, Di Stéfano, Yashin. The team above became invincible.
 
cerv said:
I am sure that without Pelé football wouldn't be as relevant as it is today and something much bigger, it wouldn't be the best and most practiced sport in the world. He changed something and opened the way for all the cracks that came after. May his soul rest in peace and may his memory live on.

PS: Pelé, Maradona, Cruyff, Di Stéfano, Yashin. The team above became invincible.
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Similar to my thoughts. Not having a 'greatest of' debate, but the most important player of all time? Has to be Pelé. Throughout the mass televisualisation, globalisation, colourisation, multiculturalisation, and commercialisation of the game - he was THE name.

I remember when I was getting into football in the early/mid 90s, reading and watching everything I could, Pelé was everywhere. The figurehead of the global game.
 


I think it's the right time to post this legendary match.

RIP Pelé.

The first truly international superstar and the most important, iconic, and transcendental player who ever lived. He truly went beyond football. :GSCARF:⚽🥅 🏟️
 
I really wasn't expecting to be hit as hard as I was with these news, seen we knew it was coming thanks to reports in the last few weeks... but still, this is just so wrong to me, the idea of living in a world without Pelé, it's like Basketball fans not having Michael Jordan or football fans, the one where they almost don't use their foot, not having Tom Brady... it's just off. I wish Pelé was more beloved by Brazilians in life, similar to how Argentinians loved Maradona, it was right.

Honestly a part of me feels like football itself has just died, and not only because of its biggest player passing away, but after the latest World Cup, where we saw Messi pretty much complete football in the all time greatest final, a part of me felt like I had just seen the peak and this sport was completely finished to most, that everything after it would just feel like filled... and now Pelé's gone, I can't help but feel that, as much as I love this sport, it's done, the soul is gone.
 
MKC said:
I really wasn't expecting to be hit as hard as I was with these news, seen we knew it was coming thanks to reports in the last few weeks... but still, this is just so wrong to me, the idea of living in a world without Pelé, it's like Basketball fans not having Michael Jordan or football fans, the one where they almost don't use their foot, not having Tom Brady... it's just off. I wish Pelé was more beloved by Brazilians in life, similar to how Argentinians loved Maradona, it was right.

Honestly a part of me feels like football itself has just died, and not only because of its biggest player passing away, but after the latest World Cup, where we saw Messi pretty much complete football in the all time greatest final, a part of me felt like I had just seen the peak and this sport was completely finished to most, that everything after it would just feel like filled... and now Pelé's gone, I can't help but feel that, as much as I love this sport, it's done, the soul is gone.
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you are right its the same as when messi and ronaldo gonna retire it would hit really hard
 
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