- Title: VARIOUS: FORMER SOCCER PLAYER PELE IS VOTED THE CENTURY'S TOP PERSONALITY
- Date: 22nd November 1999
- Summary: ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) AND VARIOUS, FILE ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) PELE INTRODUCES HIMSELF EXPLAINING THAT HIS NICKNAME STARTED BECAUSE HE COULD NOT PRONOUNCE THE WORD "PELE" (WHICH, without the acute in the last 'E' MEANS "SKIN" IN PORTUGUESE) AND WAS RIDICULID BY HIS CLASSMATES AT SCHOOL: "I fight in college with the kids because 'No, my name is Edson', they called me 'Pele', I got two days suspended, then everybody at school, all the kids started calling me Pele. I hate that time, today I love, now I love, that gave to me a short name, easy to pronounce, in any language you can remember Pele because my name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, this is hard to remember you know, and then today I love Pele" 2. PAN FROM SWISS MOUNTAINS TO FIFA HEADQUARTERS 3. CLOSE SHOT FIFA FLAG ON MAST 4. PELE WALKING INSIDE HOTEL LOBBY WITH MASTER VICE-PRESIDENT MAVA HEFFLER FILE, MILAN, ITALY (OCTOBER 31, 1990) 5. SCOREBOARD CELEBRATING PELE'S FIFTYTH BIRTHDAY 6. PELE CHEERED BY FANS AS HE ENTERS SAN SIRO (OFFICIALY CALLED GIUSEPPE MEAZZA STADIUM) STANDS 7. CROWD WAVING YELLOW AND GREEN FLAGS 8. PELE STEPS ONTO GIANT BIRTHDAY CAKE IN THE MIDDLE OF PITCH 9. CHILDREN SHOUTING "PELE, PELE" 10. PELE SHOOTS AT GOAL PLAYING FOR BRAZIL AGAINST A WORLD XI ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 11. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUESE) PELE ADMITTING THAT HE COULD PLAY AGAIN IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND WHEN HE WILL BE SITXY YEARS OLD AND CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF HIS YEARS OF HIS THIRD BRAZILIAN TITLE IN MEXICO- SEVENTY SAYS "To play professionally the whole year in modern football you need to get a better preparation but when I was fifty years old, I said I would play and I did with the Brazilian national team and when I am sixty I could get ready (fit) again and play because I have God who gave me this good physical conditioning." FILE, BRAZIL 12. PELE POSING FOR PHOTO WITH SANTOS IN THE FIFTIES 13. PELE SCORING HIS 1000TH GOAL AGAINST VASCO IN NINETEEN SIXTY NINE AT THE MARACANA, CROWD INVADE THE PITCH AND MOB PELE WHO WENT TO KISS THE BALL INSIDE THE GOAL ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 14. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUESE) PELE ASKED IF IN THE FUTURE ANY OTHER PLAYER WOULD BE BETTER THAN HIM SAYS: "People are valued for what they did. So, nobody was world champion with 17 years old, only Pele; nobody was three times world champion (as a player only), apart from Pele; nobody reached a career record of 1283 goals scored, only Pele, So, the next to appear (to be named the new Pele) would have to break all these (records), then it would be possible to see a new Pele but in the end, only God can explain that." FILE, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 15. PELE SCORING IN FRIENDLY AGAINST ENGLAND IN NINETEEN SIXTY FOUR 16. PELE ALONGSIDE GERSON, WHO PLAYED WITH HIM IN THE NINETEEN SEVENTY TEAM WHO WON THE WORLD CUP FOR THE THIRD TIME FOR BRAZIL ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 17. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUESE) PELE "IF ONE DAY THERE WILL BE ANOTHER NATIONAL SIDE AS GOOD AS BRAZIL IN NINETEEN SEVENTY, CONSIDERED THE TEAM OF THE CENTURY SAYS "I think it would be difficult, I think it would be difficult to see another team like Brazil's nineteen seventy. We might maybe see a new national side, like Brazil in 1982 but to be good and win, because you must realize there are a lot of good teams who at the end don't win, are not winners. This one (the 1970 team who won the World Cup for Brazil for the third time) was a winning team, we went through all the qualifying, three years without a defeat, we became world champions unbeaten, so I will think it would be very difficult" (to see a better team than this)." FILE, OZOIR-LA-FERRIERE, FRANCE (JUNE 1998) 18. RONALDO AT BRAZIL'S FINAL TRAINING SESSION BEFORE THE WORLD CUP FINAL AGAINST FRANCE ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 19. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUESE) PELE ASKED IF RONALD WOULD EVER BE THE SAME PLAYER AFTER THE DRAMA OF THE WORLD CUP FINAL SAYS "What was done with him was inhumane because if he wasn't fit after his problem, so after he played 10, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, then he should have been replaced by another player to run. What I think is was not fair is that was to force Ronaldinho to stay until the end of the match, I think that at that stage Ronaldo was extremely affected psychologicaly." FILE, MOSCOW, RUSSIA (APRIL, 1998) (ORT/RTN - NO ACCESS ITALY/RUSSIA) 20. RONALDO SCORING FOR INTER MILAN AGAINST SPARTAK MOSCOW IN INTER'S NINETEEN NINETY EIGHT UEFA CUP WINNING CAMPAIGN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 21. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUSE) PELE SAYING RONALDO CAN RECOVER FROM HIS TRAUMA "I think if a good work is done with him (Ronaldo) without forcing him to be a 'Ronaldinho', a 'Pele', a Maradona, whoever, if he is not put under that pressure and is left to play free I think he would recover his football." FILE, LONDON ENGLAND (JUNE 28, 1996) 22. PELE AUTOGRAPHING BRAZILIAN SHIRT AT HARRODS DEPARTMENT STORE FILE, SOUTH AFRICA (MARCH 24, 1995) 23. PELE GIVING SHIRT TO NELSON MANDELA FILE, BRAZIL (OCTOBER 15, 1978) 24. PELE KICKING BALL WITH UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 25. (SOUNDBITE) (PORTUGUESE) PELE ASKED IF THE LIKES THE POWER GAME AFTER WORKING AS BRAZILIAN SPORTS MINISTER SAYS: "I don't want to come back (to be minister), I don't want to be FIFA president, even less (president) of the CBF (The Brazilian Federation) as it was mentioned (by the press), I want to work in sport but without any political position." FILE 1971, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL 26. PELE MOBBED BY REPORTERS IN HIS LAST INTERNATIONAL AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA AT THE MARACANA 27. PELE HOLDING HIS SHIRT AS HE PARADES AROUND THE PITCH AND WAVES TO CROWD 28. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) PELE ASKED WHY HE NEVER CAME TO PLAY IN EUROPE SAYS HE GOT AN OFFER FROM GIANNI AGNELLI, THE CHAIRMAN OF FIAT AND JUVENTUS, BUT DID NOT GO FOR IT: "I had a lot of invitations, Real Madrid...(pause) I also had at that time I was invited to be share holder from Fiat to come to play in Italy. But at that time I didn't understand well the business situation, so I told to Mr. Agnelli 'no, no, I am going to stay in Santos, I don't want to come." FILE, EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 1, 1977) 29. PELE SCORING IN HIS FAREWELL GAME FOR NEW YORK COSMOS 30. PELE KISSING CHILDREN ON PODIUM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH WITH BRAZILIAN 1970 CAPTAIN CARLOS ALBERTO (FAR RIGHT OF PICTURE) AND FRANZ BECKENBAUER OF GERMANY BESIDE HIM ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 31. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) PELE TALKING ABOUT WHY HE WENT TO NEW YORK COSMOS SAYS: "There I had the opportunity to learn English and to give opportunity to family, my sons and my daughters to study English then I moved to the United States because of those purposes but not only because Cosmos pay me a little bit more than Santos." FILE, MILAN, ITALY (OCTOBER 31, 1990) 32. PELE WAVING TO CROWD BEFORE LEAVING THE PITCH IN THE LAST TIME HE ENTERED A PITCH TO PLAY SOCCER TO CELEBRATE HIS FIFTYTH BRITHDAY ZURICH, SWIZTZERLAND (MARCH 2, 1999) 33. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) PELE TALKING ABOUT LIFE AS A CELEBRITY TELLS ABOUT INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WENT TO THE TOILET IN AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT SAYS "Just excuse me the ladies because this is true (PELE STANDS UP TO EXPLAIN WITH HIS EXPRESSIVE BODY LANGUAGE WHAT HAPPENED) I asked to go the "Pipi room' (Brazilian coloquial way to say lavatory) so I went to the 'pipi room', individual 'pipi room'" Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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