Pelé, a black man living in the 50s, 60s and 70s, was unanimously or widely considered the clear best player in the world, of his generation and ever...and was the poster boy of Brazil, a country that sidelined black goalkeepers for 50 years because of one man’s error in a game.

At no point has it hit many people that this alone tells a story of how good he was and had to be?

You think he reached that level in the eyes of a largely racist world by being mid? In a generation that had so many exceptional (non-black) players that could have been raised as the sport’s best? You think running PR for those guys and placing them over him would’ve been hard?

People were filling stadia to the brim to see him play, actually paying him and his club mad money to make an appearance. In THOSE times. You think he did that just like that?

You don’t think he ran his PR purely through the level & supreme quality he showed on the pitch?