Pelé’s profile on social networks published an open letter this weekend of the World Cup final in which he asks Brazilians not to forget past achievements and exalts the importance of football not only as a sport, but as a means of social transformation .
“Despite the pain we are feeling with our elimination (…), I ask Brazilians to remember what brought us to the first five stars that we have on our chest. It is love that moves us”, wrote the former player, who remains hospitalized at Albert Einstein Hospital, in São Paulo, where he undergoes reassessment of the chemotherapy treatment of colon cancer and treats a respiratory infection.
The word “love” was written seven times in the long text in his profile, in which Pelé asks Brazilians to unite. “I don’t know what makes us so crazy about football. If it’s the love of joining true friendships around the sport, the scream of the goal or forgetting all the problems we face, even if it’s just for 90 minutes. Perhaps the love for fighting poverty, hunger and drugs, which football assumes in so many communities that make up such an immense country. There are many virtues of the most beautiful sport. Even more so here in Brazil”. Look:
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