The world press mourns the legendary Pele

More than any other player Pele has done for football becomes beautiful. Everything we love about this sport was distilled into the 1970 World Cup final, Brazil’s greatest moment,” journalist Oliver Holt commented on Dailymail about the loss of world football after when “King of Football” Pele passed away at the age of 82.

“Nature of analysis and commentary can sport is to praise a current player as the greatest ever because their achievements are still fresh in the memory.

There are many people who forget Pele right now to celebrate current stars like Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. That’s because Pele is old and memories of his heroic youth have been replaced by images of how sick he is now.

But Pele can do everything Messi and Ronaldo did so even in an era when strikers like him were treated harshly by defenders and were not protected by referees in the past.

Messi and Ronaldo are great players. great. They are phenomena of 21st century football but Pele has combined the best of both. Pele also has a long life. He was a prodigy. He opened up the era of black and white television and the era of color and in that way he was the first of the modern greats” journalist Oliver Holt compares Pele’s greatness to that of today’s stars Currently Messi and Ronaldo.

Meanwhile, the famous daily newspaper The Sun also ran the headline: “Pele passed away at the age of 82: Brazilian legend and greatest football player of all time.” life after the battle with cancer.

The football world is mourning after it was announced that the Brazilian icon passed away in his homeland.

With the nickname The King Pele, he won three World Cups with Brazil from from 1958 to 1970 is the only player in football history to achieve this achievement.

His incredible achievement is 1,279 goals in 1,363 matches including friendly matches recognized as a Guinness World Record.

He scored 77 goals in 92 matches for the national team – a record that was just equaled by Neymar at the recent World Cup” The Sun newspaper emphasized. .

“Pele is the standard by which all other great players are measure” ESPN also praised the Brazilian legend on the front page.

“Pe le. Four letters and two syllables. And is a universal concept. A concept understood by everyone regardless of distance from the king sport.< /p>

Pele – this word – has meaning not only to fans but also to people who have never watched a soccer match and to people who have hated the sport,” ESPN wrote.

Another prestigious British newspaper, The Guardian, shared an image of world football legend Pele sitting on the shoulders of teammates and fans after the war. Brazil’s victory in the 1970 World Cup final in Mexico City.

“He was a player who showed his skills to the whole world,” asserted this newspaper’s journalist Richard Williams.

One of Brazil’s major newspapers O Globo also printed four unprecedented editions in history with different covers marking different points in the story. Pele’s career. The newspaper’s title is simply “Pele Eterno” – in English “Pele Eternal”.

Says the Spanish newspaper El Páis “Farewell Pele the king of football with the iconic 1970 World Cup victory image.

French sports daily L’Équipe uses distinctive colors of Brazil on the front page. Filled on this page is an image of a young Pele emphasizing “He is a king”.

The Mirror also posted a picture of Pele celebrating at the 1970 World Cup and called him “The Best. The newspaper wrote that “the world praises the ‘divine’ genius who created the beauty of football.

The French newspaper Liberation posted a full page image of Pele with the content: “The legendary Brazilian football player and three-time world champion has died on Thursday at the age of 82”.

Scotland’s Daily Record called it “The death of a legend”. The newspaper wrote that the sports world is “in mourning” as the only man to lift the world championship trophy three times passed away.