Pelé death reaction

The world has seen many enviable talents; those who took their careers to new dimensions; one may be tempted to say; "to a strange realm." Such people performed in peculiar realms! They made us fall in love with the way they exhibited their gifts in their chosen field.

Almost every area of human endeavour has been visited by such people; who took their profession to elevated platforms.

Time may not grant me the opportunity to mention all the great minds that have ever influenced the world positively in a similar fashion, people like Thomas Edison, Mahatma Gandhi, David Livingstone, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci among others.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, fondly called Pelé, touched the pitch and made football a household sport. We could say, "He touched the ball and put the whole pitch in his tiny pockets." When he was merely a young boy, he bumped into his dad, Dondinho, crying profusely.

Now, this was the issue: in those days, it was easier to make an elephant pass through a needle eye than to meet a man crying. For

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