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Ha I didn't know that, but now I can totally hear it.
RIP to the king of the game. Legend. >

He's arguably one of the primary reasons why soccer became the most popular sport in the world. RIP >

Retired ~50 years ago and remained a household name. >

Seriously though! As someone who doesn't follow sports all that much, it wasn't until a few years ago that I realized Pelé was an older man and not some present day sports superstar given how common it was to hear his name mentioned whenever soccer/football came up. >

I am just now learning that Pele is not a 35 year old man.  I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to soccer, but I knew the name Pele. >

Having learned about him growing up but not watching soccer I thought he played with guys like Beckham. He's to soccer what Wilt and Babe Ruth are to basketball and baseball. >

I'm not a soccer fan, but I get the impression that Pelé is far more important to soccer than Wilt Chamberlain is to basketball or Babe Ruth is to baseball. I'm not sure American sports has an equivalent to Pelé. >

Maybe not in importance but in complete domination of their sport setting records that still have yet to be broken. >

I was just speaking in terms of their importance. We have had many great players in different sports but Pelé is like the Jesus Christ of soccer, no American athlete matches that. Closest one would probably be Michael Jordan, but I don't think even he is on the same level because his fame has waned a bit in the 20 years he has been retired whereas Pelé has been retired for 50 years and is just as famous as he ever was. >

Jordan might be the closest example, I don't think his fame has waned much at all, with the last dance pushing him back up as far as sports conversations go. and culturally, look at the feet of any teenager in any UK city today, they're wearing the man's shoes. Although I can't speak for anywhere else, I'm sure it's a similar story >

This is going to be weird to some, maybe... but what i remember him most for is the movie Victory with him, Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow. Mostly a very fictionalized story about something from World War II... but it was a cool little movie where the Allies beat the Nazis at soccer.
They had Pelé using his skills to basically defeat the Third Reich. Sure, not all that super accurate, but it's a fun movie to watch. He was able to act at least as well as Stallone too. And it was one one of the last films directed by John Huston too. >

Now, Max von Sydow is a name I don't see mentioned nearly enough.  
LEVEL FIVE!! >

Max von Sydow was in tons of great movies. Awakenings, Game of Thrones, one of the new Star Wars movies, The Exorcist, Never Say Never Again, Flash Gordon, Dune, The Seventh Seal, Pelle the Conqueror, etc, He was one of the best actors to ever walk the planet.
He should be mentioned in the same catagory as Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg and Marlon Brando. >

You don't even mention his most important role. The voice of Esbern in Skyrim!