Pelé: The King of Soccer by Joe Johnson, Vincent Brascaglia, Eddy Simon

Pelé: The King of Soccer

Joe Johnson, Vincent Brascaglia, Eddy Simon

144 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography sports emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to his schoolmates as Pele, grew up in poverty in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. He was too poor to afford a real soccer ball, so he played with a ball of newspaper tied together with string. Yet he dominated th...

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