>Claudio;
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>Pele is soccer! He is the national treasure of Brazil.
>Pele is the outstanding soccer player of the world and an ambassador of Brazil and a fine person.

Yes, you´re right. But, I also have that feelings for Ayrton Senna (" the Pelé of F1") :)


>He also helped soccer in the United States a great deal. Before Pele, we could not spell soccer in the United States! We are learning though. :)

:)

probably USA will give trouble for the "traditional" teams on the next few years.

Anyway, it´ll always be hard for you in order to spell some Brazilian players: "Ronaldinho Gaúcho", "Dida", "Ricardinho", "Denilson", "Juninho"... I can´t imagine how do you speak those names. :)
I remember on 94' world cup in USA, when a TV comentarist said that a American comentarist had written Brazilian names in a "English way"... then "Aldair", became something like "All their". That´s kind of funny. ;)