Моя жизнь и прекрасная игра

Futbol – eto bolshe, chem ygra, bolshe, chem prosto luchshee v myre zrelyshche. Eto arena strastey y sporov, syly, doblesty y yzyashchestva. Y korol futbola na vse vremena – eto Édson Arantys du Nasymentu, a poprostu – Pele. Malchyshka yz bednogo brazylskogo kvartala, kotoryy potryas myr genyalnoy ygroy y stal trekhkratnym chempyonom myra. Zhurnalysty nazyvaly ego «Chernoy zhemchuzhynoy», a trenery – ydealnym atletom. No genyalnyy futbolyst okazalsya y yarkym memuarystom. Ego razmyshlenyya otkrovenny, yskrenny, a rassuzhdenyya o futbole, ob uspekhe otlychayutsya glubokym ponymanyem etykh fenomenov. Kogda eta knyga vyshla v svet – v Brazylyy massovo staly otkryvatsya kursy chtenyya, potomu chto myllyony negramotnykh brazyltsev reshyly nauchytsya chytat, chtoby poznakomytsya s knygoy svoego kumyra. Eta knyga perevedena na vse myrovye yazyky, vsegda y vezde ona vyzyvaet shyrokyy ynteres.

Football is more than a game, more than just the best spectacle in the world. This is an arena of passion and controversy, strength, valor and grace. And the king of football for all time is Edson Arantis do Nascimento, or simply Pele. A boy from a poor Brazilian neighborhood who shocked the world with a brilliant game and became a three-time world champion. Journalists called him a "Black Pearl," and his coaches called him an ideal athlete. But the brilliant football player turned out to be a vivid memoirist. His reflections are frank and sincere, and his discussions about football and success are characterized by a deep understanding of these phenomena. When this book was published, reading courses began to open en masse in Brazil, because millions of illiterate Brazilians decided to learn how to read in order to get acquainted with the book of their idol. This book has been translated into all the world's languages, and it is always of great interest everywhere.