BBCNEWS BBC News July 6, 2024
as you are saying, pele died last thursday under december the 29th at the age of 82, of colon cancer. he had been ill for a while and for the past few days, brazilians were able to remember the key moments of his career, his most beautiful goals. he scored 1283 of them, so it was a time for brazilians to remember stories of the past. and pele was a key figure in the making of brazil's image abroad. at 17, he won brazil's first world cup in 1958. to give a bit of context, 1958 was also the year in which brazil's great composer launched the song that inaugurated the bossa nova movement...