Last December 29 the light went out Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele, Considered the best soccer player in the world, he lost his life at the age of 82 due to complications after being hospitalized for colon cancer. “O King”, as he was known, with his death, he gave way to legend, and now books of biographies and other texts have come to light again, including that of Brian Wintertitled “Pelé: because football matters”one of the most revealing writings on the career of the greatest exponent of football.
In this book, the writer ventured to write one of the most intimate stories of Pele, an idol of the most popular sport in the world, considered the best player of all time. in the pages of “Pelé: because football matters” draws one of that legendary star, the ambassador and the humanitarian character, based on a series of statements by himself Pelewho first shared her story.
“He won his first World Cup at just 17 years old, and became one of the most famous. He started at a time when there was no mass pop culture, he was a pioneer and that made him a bit suspicious. But despite that, he seemed to me a very nice and generous person ”, Explain Brian Winter.
The book shares his experience, his insights into the game that made him a legend, and Winter He also takes the opportunity to clarify one of the most recurring questions of his entire career, Why have you never accepted to belong to a European club? Winter argues that before they were consecrated ronaldo, Messieither Beckhamwas Pele the one in charge of paving the way for them with his exploits in sport.
Winter presents how this player went from being unknown to a man considered a national treasure of his native Brazil. A man who made pure magic, with three world championships wonwho narrates how he broke the record with a total of 1,822 goals throughout the first twenty years of its history. This work also reflects the first time that the ex-soccer player expressed his way of thinking about the sport that made him famous.
In the 304 pages edited by the label Celebrates, the author establishes soccer as a connector. In this conversation, Pele recounts out loud how he traveled the world as a global soccer ambassador and shares his support for multiple charities, including his time at the UNICEF and his campaigns to promote the positive influence of this sport and how he sought to promote changes in youth, communities and countries.
“Pelé: because football matters” it is one of the most revealing texts of his life as a player. Brian Winter tells how, despite the fact that the old continent has the best teams in the world and they were interested in recruiting “O King”clubs like Real Madrid or the Milanit was the same Pele who repeatedly rejected the proposals, despite the large sums of money. “I had my reasons: in a nutshell, I loved the rice and beans that my mom made, I felt comfortable and happy in my country. My mom and dad lived a few meters from our house, the temperature was always 25 degrees and the beach was great”.
For football connoisseurs and fans, “Pelé: because football matters” represents an opportunity to learn in depth the history, experience and ideas that were in the mind of the greatest ambassador of Brazilian soccer, who through extraordinary details and a frankness like never before, shared with Winter his most moving, inspiring experiences and his most difficult lessons, to build a broad panorama of his life before and after the soccer fields.
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