Sports Hero: Pelé

One of the most influential people in my life started out as a normal little kid on the streets of a small town in South America.

His name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but the world knows him as Pelé. He greatly revolutionized the sport of soccer and made it the number one sport in the world.

Born in the small village of Tres Coracoes in 1.940, Pelé started playing this sport at a very young age. At is, Pelé observed his father play soccer for hours hoping that someday he would become a professional player himself.

When he was a child, Pelé and his family moved to Baurú in interior of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo where he learned to master the art of futball.