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The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

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I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

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A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

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The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

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I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

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When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

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Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

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Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Athlete

Born: October 23rd, 1940

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