The great Pele has died at age 82. One guilty pleasure film for me has always been Victory (sometimes listed as Escape to Victory), with Pele, Michael Caine, and Sly Stallone playing soccer in WW2 against Germans.
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I largely didn't know anything about Soccer(Football) as a sport that you could actually play until I was in middle school. Mine was a football and baseball neighborhood. But I knew who Pele was as a grade schooler. And because of him, I knew who the New York Cosmos were. Something about him was instantly likeable and fascinating and cool. And I imagine it's because of him that Soccer starting catching on as a sport in the US through the 70s. At least enough that a rural Oklahoma kid like me was getting to play in organized leagues by 1980.Comment
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