He goes right, then left, he shoots goalllllllllllll (high fives audience). "Olá" my name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento but people know me as Pelé. I was born in Três Coraçôęs, Brazil but I grew up in Bauru. My parents are Dondinho and Celeste Nascimento I have a brother named Jair and a sister named Maria Lucia, my father works at a government building and plays on a semi-professional soccer team, but enough with that I am going to tell you about my childhood, how I made the national soccer team at age 18, and what I am currently doing today. First off, let me tell you about my childhood and how it all started. I grew up in poverty, (show audience empty pockets) living was hard my dad got a new job making us move to a big city which made it harder because it cost more to do things. Me and my siblings didn't go to school much because of the cost so that's when I started playing soccer. When I played soccer me and my friends played in the alleys and streets, we didn't have money to afford a real ball so we used rolled up socks with rags in them. At this time I was one of the best players being 10 at my age only playing with a sock as a ball. As well to that all of my …show more content…
After I got settled in we played games after games and I did fantastic so well that I made the national team. When I heard that news it was better than being on the santos so we headed off to Sweden to play in my first ever World Cup. In the World Cup we played three game in the quarter finals and we won two tied one, and I scored 1 in the three games, we then went on to the next round and we won and we went on one more time and won I scored 2 goals that