>>Brazil lost interest in soccer when Pele retired. They have nothing left!
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>That was a good one! ROFL

Fernando;

I saw the first televised soccer game (ABC) right after Pele joined the Cosmos. Here is what happened:

1. Pele had the ball and break for commercial.
2. Return from commercial, “While we were gone Pele scored a goal but do not worry, we have it on instant reply”.
3. Return from instant reply, “While we were showing the goal that Pele scored on instant reply, Pele scored a second goal! Here it is on instant reply”.
4. Return from instant reply, “While we were showing Pele score a second goal, he scored a header”. Break for commercial

I knew that professional soccer had a long way to go in the United States, especially on television!

Pele did a lot to help soccer in the United States. I saw him play in Los Angeles on July 4, 1977, when he was with the New York Cosmos. George Best was on the Los Angeles Aztec's team. They were both in the air horizontally attacking the ball – each one aimed at the other, about four or five feet off the ground. I took a picture with my 800 mm lens just before they both hit the ball. At that time Pele had scored more than three times as many goals as the next highest soccer player in world history, according to the news media and record books.

By the way I worked for Ampex Corporation at that time and we invented instant reply. I have mixed emotions about all that!

Tom

P.S. No technology can take the place of having seen Pele in person!