Pelé

To recall, through Pelé's history, some of those unforgettable moments when soccer attained the level of art -- those seconds that, through the imperfect medium of television, revealed to hundreds of millions of men, women, and children of all countries the magic power of the round ball -- this is the task of the first two parts of my book. But the aim of the third, and most important part of this book, is to try to analyze a unique phenomenon: the renown and universal popularity enjoyed by a Black apparently destined for a miserable existence. -- Preface.