Product Description

The world's greatest living footballer is 60 this year, and here is the long-awaited, fully authorised story of his life. With exclusive access to Pele, award-winning sports writer Harry Harris charts his meteoric rise from humble beginnings in Brazil to his first international at the age of sixteen. Superb athlcticism, speed of thought and execution, and astonishing ball control helped him become the only player to have appeared in three World Cup winning sides, and to have scored more than one thousand goals in his senior career. A world-class sporting hero, Pele is an inspiration to millions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7201510 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
Without doubt, Pele is the finest footballer this planet has ever seen. From his World Cup debut in 1958 through to the famous 1970 Brazil team the finest international side ever assembled, his was a charmed career. There is no false modesty - he knows his place at the top of the pile - and his political and ambassadorial works since he stopped playing have had an air of both naivety and opportunism as he exploits his name shamlessly in the pursuit of various causes, often usefully, occasionally less so. To do justice to his talents and to his extraordinary life would test the writing skills of Hemingway, never mind Harris, a tabloid journalist. But he tells the story simply, although with a willingness to and each chapter dramatically and with a strangely infectious sense of awe. A workmanlike of a man who is anything but. (Kirkus UK)

About the Author
Harry Harris has been voted British Sportswriter of the Year several times. The leading football correspondent for the Mirror, he is also the author of many other books, including the best-selling authorised biography of Ruud Gullit. He lives in Chelsea, London.