PELE: THE MAN WE WATCHED
The admirable performances of a genuine child uplifts his country home and brings their paths to limelight no matter how impenetrably obscured ealier. A land though the fifth largest in the wolrd, unrecognized before now as such for ages after her independence from portugal,,
laid bare somewhere in South America waiting,perhaps, what the future holds for her.
And coincidentally, the invention of 1904, to be precise, of a Round Leather game which Gazzaniga Silvio the rare sculptor of Milan, made more competitive through his trophy designed, was set to equipt a small boy unrecognized somewhere to be a bright star and hero for many in our modern world.
PELE of Brazil, like river Niger from the futa Jallon highland, you started from a local court-yard with other peers and school-mates, who determination gown they wore with you, were to them like a pantaloon and they bowed out. You courageously continued and made the implacable glory that immortalised your home and you in the game.
Your dazzling actions in the field of play still remain evergreen in our memories. Where you dexteritly often mesmerised roundishly with the inflated spheric objcet called ball, and some good numbers of your opponents sweaved to a negative side like a water swept by angry syclone.
Your torsing, tapping, chesting, heading and prowess in sprawling when the game was climaxing, and when even the commentator was shrilling like a Cricket, and with contriction in his voice as to lay eggs through the other hole; have endeared you dearly to our hearts.
When you run round with ball, with perfect combination and situation controlling, we wondered if you do breath at all.
Oh, have you watched the Maestro like us? He really has turned a hero to: Careca, Babistuta, Carlos, Andriano, Edmilson, Nelson Dido, Marcos Cafu, Leite Andriano, Luiz Ronaldo, Gaucho Roanldinho.... He has also been a source of revival to his challengers like Platini, Diego Maradona, Owel etc.
If the whole world is but one, definitely his fan is but one. Again if the whole world is one, he is just a hero to one. But what of if otherwise?
If there is a family or a person that never heard of him, it is that that family or the person have never seen for the first time his tool which he either holds alternately with his two legs or chasing someone to snatch it from him.
We cuddled in happiness to watch you, and jumpped up with alacrity to celebrated your final and ultimate products.
I only have one regret which though does not plague me at all. And that is, I have watched you over and over all over the screen where you remain to me an object far more reach; but I have not seen you in my home live, though your unflinching fan. I am sure it may be impossible.