Will an African Nation Ever Win the World Cup? Much As We'd Like to See It Happen, Let's Face It: They're Rubbish, Aren't They?
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IT'S just as well that Pele earned fame and fortune as one of the world's greatest footballers because he would have ended up starving in a Rio de Janeiro gutter as a tipster.
I still cringe at my naivety when recalling how a hardearned GBP10 note was once passed over a bookmaker's counter on Colombia to win the 1994World Cup. The reason for this bold punt, at 10/1 if memory serves, was that Pele had publicly bestowed his faith in Carlos Valderrama et al, proclaiming them as natural successors to the great Brazil teams he had once magically spearheaded.See the full content of this document
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Will an African Nation Ever Win the World Cup? Much As We'd Like to See It Happen, Let's Face It: They're Rubbish, Aren't They?
As one of the finest ever to tug on a pair of boots, Pele would know what he was talking about, wouldn't he? That, I discovered to my debt, was the logic of an i...
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