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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Darren Lewis

Fantasy footballer Pele became king of the world and rubbed shoulders with US presidents

Everything your favourite player has done, Pele did it as a teenager.

His was a virtuoso display as a 17 year old sealing the World Cup for Brazil against Sweden in 1958. So much so that one of the opposition players later admitted to wanting to applaud one of his goals.

As everyone knows, he would go on to famously lift two more - no other player has achieved that feat. Yet his impact would reverberate far and wide beyond football, transcending generations.

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