Pelé spent the months before the World Cup in Mexico telling people he was finished. He was not yet thirty, but a brutal tournament four years earlier — where defenders had kicked him out of the competition while referees looked the other way — had convinced him his body owed football nothing more. He had said, more than once and in public, that he would never play for the national team again. The man the planet was about to crown the greatest f…
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