Friday Nite Videos | December 30, 2022
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Possibly the greatest player of all-time, Pelé, burst on to the scene with dazzling play at 17 and led his Brazilian team to three World Cups.
By criticizing the 2014 World Cup and the spending priorities of the Brazilian government, soccer legend Pelé has accomplished the rarest of feats in twenty-first-century sports media: he has shown the capacity to shock and surprise. The fact that he feels compelled to actually speak out about the carnival of injustice FIFA and the Worker's Party are creating with the 2014 World Cup only underscores just how deep the crisis remains throughout the country.
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