Word: peled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Harvard All-American Shep Messing plays goalie for the Minutemen, and depending on the schedule which will be made up this weekend, he might be fending off shots from the likes of the legendary Pele, not to mention American stars like Kyle Rote, Jr. from the Dallas Tornados...
...quickly signed by the New York Cosmos (who last week signed Brazilian soccer star Pele for an estimated $6 million) and for two seasons played in the Big Apple...
...Minutemen just signed Euseibio, the Portuguese star and second most famous player to Pele. With those players in the league. Messing says the television networks are fighting for the contract rights when previously no one wanted them...
...Felix Adedeji has been having the same problem this year. When you have played against Pele and some of the best teams in the world, it's hard to adapt to an American college team. But Felix is making the adjustment now, and in the past two games he has helped us a great deal with his teamwork," Thomas said...
...world's greatest soccer player, Brazil's national hero and one of the highest-paid professional athletes ($152,000 in salary), Pele could afford to be magnanimous. He would be happy, he said, to lend some parts of his uniform to an upcoming soccer exhibit in London. On second thought, though, no sense in taking chances with garments of such inestimable symbolic value. Pele insisted they would have to insure them...