The Brazil legend’s death in São Paulo has prompted an outpouring of tributes from the football world and beyond.
I’m going to bring this blog to a close very soon. Beofre I go, here’s an email from Ben Bagga.
Tonight I have shed more than a few tears, for the loss of someone I never knew or met, the loss of the greatest player of the game I love, the loss of an incomparable Brazilian icon & more importantly the loss of an incredible person who showed, not only his family, but the world as a whole, an inconceivable amount of love & joy.
While today the tributes flow, it will not be long before Pelé’s career is sliced and diced into oblivion as first-hand accounts of his greatness diminish and the fascination with anointing one true footballing deity consumes the game. Last year Barney Ronay cautioned against sidelining the Brazilian in this exercise in futility.
With nothing but talent to guide him, the boy from Minas Gerais became the first black global sporting superstar, and a source of genuine uplift and inspiration. Pelé won the World Cup aged 17, moving like someone from the future, seeing different things, running through a different kind of air.
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