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"Pelé shut up is a poet. On the field, he was our Father; outside it, he should put a shoe in his mouth"

O Pelé calado é um poeta. Dentro de campo, ele foi o nosso pai. Fora dele, tem de colocar um sapato na boca.

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Source: Veja Magazine; 1895 Edition. March 9th, 2005.

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