Unlike the author, I have not spent a chunk of my life watching games Pele played in, but only because I haven’t gotten around to it:
I have a feeling that if I could somehow put all this together, could solve it like a jigsaw puzzle, it would give me a coherent picture of Pele, the priggishness and the greed and the generosity and the genius. On the other hand, to me, this stuff is all detritus, what’s washed up from the shipwreck of one of the most spectacular careers in sports. To Pele, who has been retired for 35 years — longer than he was ever a player, almost half his life — it’s memories. It’s his life.
via Pele and the Cult of Celebrity – Grantland.
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