Soccer legend Pele was known even to me as a kid. And I am from Canada where Hockey is the only sport that dominates our culture. But news comes our way that Pele’s story is to be made into a biopic.
That said, WMA have signed ‘soccer’ legend, Pele for representation and are now preparing a biopic about his life.
In general, the game of ‘soccer’ has progressed a lot since his day and even though he was considered probably the most skilfull player of his generation, a lot of those skills have become obsolete or at the very least overshadowed by new techniques. However, it’s likely that nothing will ever overshadow or even come close to the inspiration the man gave to countless ‘soccer’ fans. A mind-blowing example of this was when notoriously, a 48 hour cease-fire took place in the middle of a bloody civil war in Nigeria so that people could watch him play.
I like how the writer at JoBlo keeps calling it “soccer” in quotes like we don’t get it. Yeah, its called Football in a lot of the world. We just call it soccer because we already have football (what do they call football?)
I have never been much of a Soccer fan, (I know John is a hardcore Italian, and I know very few who do not lust of the manly sport of Soccer) but I would still be interested in any story that made a man’s name recognizable even beyond his fandom.
Maybe they can have a story that puts a computer generated Pele against modern footballers like David Beckam to see who would win?
