Nascimento Informative Speech

Imagine being called the best player in the world that has ever existed. How would you feel ? Have a moment to just think about an amazing person that has impacted your life? What troubles did that person have to go through to achieve? Allow me to give a speech about someone inspirational that has stood out to me.

This person is a 73 year old Brazilian, that has amazed everyone in the world. This amazing soccer player is Edison Arantes do Nascimento or as people know him as Pelé. Pelé has been the best soccer player in history and still is to this day. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, but also a hard place to live. See Brazil is how you think it is, its rough place to be in its like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Columbia, and many more. Here in America you go to the nearest faucet for water, but in Brazil you go to the nearest river to fetch water to bathe and to drink. Now how did Pelé afford to play soccer? Here in America you have these big soccer …show more content…
Pele is 73 years old and he was born on October 23, 1940, in Three Hearts a town in Brazil. He had two wives and 6 children. His father was Dondinho also a pro soccer player for Atletico Mineiro but had a devastating injury in his knee and the family did not have enough money for surgery. His mother was Dona Celeste that also enjoyed soccer until Dondinho‘s awful injury. As a child Pelé was poor, and struggled in his life. His family could not supply him with the proper equipment he needed. He played with coconuts and cantaloupes. His father would take an old sock and fill it up with rags into a round shape good enough to roll, good for a five-year old, but that homemade ball made him go a long way. Pelé scored 1,281 goals in his whole entire soccer career that’s in eleven years! He started on 1956, on a weak team called Santos, but he progressed. Pelé wasn't that tall he was five feet eight inches that’s my height. That was a disadvantage compared to 6 feet