How Pelé played: the video with the best plays of the 3-time world champion

After more than a month hospitalized for a reassessment of the chemotherapy he was undergoing for a colon tumor and for the treatment of a respiratory infection, Edson Arantes do Nascimento​, better known as Pelé, died this Thursday at the hospital in Sao Paulo. Considered by many to be the best player in history, that's how Pelé played.

Emerged in the lower ranks of Santos, he played a large part of his career there. From 1956, when he was promoted to the first team, until 1975, when he would change airs, he won six Brasileirao –Brazilian First Division–, from 1961 to 1965 and in 1968, 10 Paulista Championships –regional tournament of the State of São Paulo–, in 1958, from 1960 to 1962, 1964 and 1965, from 1967 to 1969 and in 1973, the Copa Libertadores 61/62 and 62/63 and their respective Intercontinentals. 

In 1975 he was transferred to the New York Cosmos, where he won the North American Soccer League, the most important tournament in the United States at the time, in 1977, the year in which he retired. 

In the Brazilian team he achieved what, until now, no one could repeat: winning 3 World Cups. Pelé was part of the squads in Sweden 1958 (at only 17 years old he was the star), Chile 1962, where he only played two games because it was torn against Czechoslovakia, and Mexico 1970 (this Brazilian team is considered one of the best teams in history), where he was key to winning the title.

The individual distinctions were won by all colors. Best young player and part of the ideal team of the 1958 World Cup, scorer and best player in dozens of tournaments, part of the best team of the 20th century by CONMEBOL and UEFA, best South American soccer player and also of the 20th century world according to the IFFHS, player of the century of FIFA and a long etcetera. The list is endless. 

Technique, dribbling, speed, power, header, ability to finish off with both legs. Pelé had all this and much more, one of the most complete footballers of all time.

Best young player and part of the ideal team of the 1958 World Cup, scorer and best player in dozens of tournaments, part of the best team of the 20th century by CONMEBOL and UEFA, best South American soccer player and also of the 20th century world according to the IFFHS, player of the century of FIFA and a long etcetera.