YouTube Gold: Pelé's Greatest Goals

Sports are great for a lot of reasons. First, you may see people elevate themselves to impossible levels either on their own or, even better in a group. Second, they can bring people together in a way that not many things can. If you live in an area where your team is on a huge roll then people bond over it. And even when you see greatness, it’s usually fleeting. Baylor’s basketball team this year was a thing of beauty. Next year? Well, they’ll probably be good. They’re not going to be that good though. So when you find people who tower above their sport, and do so for a long time, it’s great to watch. Secretariat’s stunning win in the 1973 Preakness has never been duplicated. Nothing has even come close. Muhammad Ali was a colossus in boxing and popular culture. People still talk about Babe Ruth, about a hundred years past his peak. Michael Jordan. Wilt Chamberlain. And very high up that list is Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but you probably know him as Pelé Pelé did something only a handful of athletes ever do: he revolutionized and redefined his sport. He and his Brazilian contemporaries introduced…
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