Моя жизнь и прекрасная игра

Futbol - ėto bolʹshe, chem igra, bolʹshe, chem prosto luchshee v mire zrelishche. Ėto arena strasteĭ i sporov, sily, doblesti i izi͡ashchestva. I korolʹ futbola na vse vremena - ėto Ė́dson Arantis du Nasimentu, a poprostu - Pele. Malʹchishka iz bednogo brazilʹskogo kvartala, kotoryĭ potri͡as mir genialʹnoĭ igroĭ i stal trekhkratnym chempionom mira. Zhurnalisty nazyvali ego "Chernoĭ zhemchuzhinoĭ", a trenery - idealʹnym atletom. No genialʹnyĭ futbolist okazalsi͡a i i͡arkim memuaristom. Ego razmyshlenii͡a otkrovenny, iskrenni, a rassuzhdenii͡a o futbole, ob uspekhe otlichai͡utsi͡a glubokim ponimaniem ėtikh fenomenov. Kogda ėta kniga vyshla v svet - v Brazilii massovo stali otkryvatʹsi͡a kursy chtenii͡a, potomu chto milliony negramotnykh brazilʹt͡sev reshili nauchitʹsi͡a chitatʹ, chtoby poznakomitʹsi͡a s knigoĭ svoego kumira. Ėta kniga perevedena na vse mirovye i͡azyki, vsegda i vezde ona vyzyvaet shirokiĭ interes.

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.