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QUICK FACT: Pele

August 21, 2008 | The Beautiful Game | Add a comment

Did you know that Pele helped lead Brazil to the FIFA World Cup Championship at age 17? Pele, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is the only person to have won the World Cup three times as a player. He scored 1,281 goals in his professional career and is considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time.

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