composition about pele

In 1940 August 23^rd, Pele was born In a poor family in a state in Brazil called Tres coracoes . His father was a great soccer player. Pele’s father stopped playing soccer because he injured his knee while playing a soccer match. His family moved to Baura when he was four years old.

In the state where Pele lived there was no soccer ball, so Pele and his friends would normally squeeze newspapers to form a ball and played with it. They would all play soccer from morning to night without studying at all. Pele’s father would teach him soccer skills before a soccer match so that he win the game easily. When Pele was not playing soccer he would polish other people‘s shoe just to support his family.

Pele played soccer very well and managed to get into Bauru soccer team. He played in the junior team and won the title for the team. Next another soccer team called Santos called him to join the team and he did so. In his first year, Pele scored 17 goals which was a great achievement. Pele played in Santos until 1958 when he joined the Brazil national team.

Brazil played with Sweden and won the game; they scored 5-2 and were recorded in the Guinness Book of records. The victory was all thanks to Pele. He won the Guinness records when he was only 17 years old.

Pele was able to understand the game, so he could dribble past through two defenders , head the ball into the net, can stop the ball by his chest, and can score a goal without failure.

In 1970 Brazil went to Mexico to play in the Guinness records again. This time they played against Italy and thrashed them 4-1 and came in the Guinness world of records thrice in a row. The spectators were unbelievable when Pele headed the ball into the net. When the team won the Guinness records, the next day in the Sunday times the headlines was “How do you spell Pele? G-O-D “

A few years later, when Pele retired, 761 news reporters from 25 countries visited him and they found out that Pele scored 1282 goals in his 22 years of playing soccer.

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