Football legend, Pele was reportedly paid by Puma to tie his shoes in the middle of the field before kickoff of the quarterfinal match between Brazil and Peru during the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

Pele wore Pumas football boots at the 1970 FIFA World Cup; requesting the referee to stop a game in the last minute so he could tie-up his pair of Puma's and create vital promotion for the Puma brand. He knew the cameras would be on him and so did Puma. And they wanted the cameras to focus on his football boots.

Barbara Smit, in her book "Three Stripes Versus Puma", states that PUMA employee Hans Henningsen paid Pele $120,000 to wear Pumas..

Pele, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is a Brazilian footballer who is widely regarded as the greatest player to play the game. Pele is the winner of three FIFA World Cups: 1958, 1962 and 1970. Pele scored over 1000 goals and played for two clubs: Santos and New York Cosmos.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/07/history-why-pele-was-paid-to-ties-his-shoelace-before-world-cup-match-in-1970.html

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Imagine paying me for sleeping.

Long before the Ronaldos and Messis there was a Pele. The one and only G.O.A.T.

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peetay:
Long before the Ronaldos and Messis there was a Pele. The one and only G.O.A.T.

a real ewure.

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Great! I saw a movie about him recently. He is really an inspiration.

Pele is streaking down the right!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzRsvCsC4c


and that beautiful team goal against England.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZGRSyTaRko

Perks of being famous

One of the perks for being famous....

Omo puma don tey o since 1970 I doubt if d original owner is still alive.

How I wish Pele played in d era of neymar, messi, Ronaldo he'll teach them how to play football.

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Imagine stopping the game for a player to tie shoe lace

hun

Pele the onitsha boy

only if you know how much ronaldo is been paid by nike

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SHORT WORLD CUP STORY

Croatia came to this World Cup with only two natural strikers. Mario Mandzukic, the guy who scored the winner last night was one.

The other was Nikola Kalinic (pictured below).

Kalinic was on the bench for Croatia's first game against Nigeria. With five munites to end that game, coach instructed him to dress up and replace another player.

Kalinic angrily refused to play, in protest of being left on the bench.

He saw himself a top player, and wouldn't come on for just five munites. The coach turned to other player Pjaca for the substitution.

After the match, Kalinic refused to apologize, despite appeals from other coaching staff.

The coach then sacked him from the team, and sent him home from Russia. Kalinic flew for holidays, and even posted pictures of himself enjoying elsewhere.

After all, he seem to imagine Croatia won't go anywhere in the tournament. But without him, the team managed to win their matches.

Last night, Croatia achieved their greatest football achievement in history, reaching the World Cup final.

The remaining 22 players are national heroes. Their names forever inscribed in the hearts of generations.

Kalinic is not part of the winning team all because of minutes of anger, pride and bloated ego.

He may have regretted now but it is too late. These stories about life are quite familiar to us, but do we really learn lessons from them? As they profoundly apply to all spheres of life?

Learn to cut pride, learn to control anger and deflate ego. And ultimately, learn to say SORRY.

Years of sweat and dedication can all be shattered by moments of anger and pride.

Don't be a Kalinic

This one is more than a G.O.A.T BUT an Elephant

peetay:
Long before the Ronaldos and Messis there was a Pele. The one and only G.O.A.T.

Even before Maradona

kenonze:
He should be fined.

Arsenal Nicklas Bendtner was fined for expossing his inner wear (Power Paddy) for Euros

Go Brazil collect the fine.