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Pelé the great one in FIFA History : water color picture by Canadian Michael Mateus at the age of twelve.

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Pelé the king of Soccer by Michael Mateus At the age of twelve my Canadian born  son Michael Mateus  started to look into the Brazilian culture,  and in his researching he found an old soccer magazine called Placar, that I brought from Brazil,  On the back page of the Brazilian Placar  soccer magazine, was there a black and white 2 by 2 inches  picture of the king of the great game PELË   wearing the  USA Cosmo soccer team and some of the 1970  Brazilian National team  World Cup Champions.  Mike who loves to do graffiti paint ,  dressed Pele in his artist imagination, and  the Canary jersey , the result was  this  picture of  the king of soccer Pele-  looking like  "after heading the ball towards the net with steady open eyes as if waiting  for a  rebound"  after Banks made that save from a header by Pelé  in Mexico 1970 Brazil 1 Versus  England nil ...

Brazil Liga Futsal 2011 Opening Game Santos 3 Versus 2 Joinville Krona

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Liga Futsal Brazil 2011 With Chico looking on , Joinville Krona  Leco steals the ball from Falcao (12), as Indio ( 14 ) hopping to get the tie goal from a lose ball ,but  that did not happened on the first half  dominated by the home team , pushed by the home crowd that packed the Univille Gymnasium.  But, coach Ferretti was not too content watching his team losing by two goals on the first half , on the debut of the debut of the Brazilian Premier Futsal League  On the the second half, Ferretti used  the random   rotating substitutions strategy, in the way that Falcao and Valdin would play together on the shift that Krona's  defenders- Chico and Leco were resting on the side lines. Ferretti  tactical move paid off , and  turn the game over , winning by 3 to 2 , as well as  shutting up the Joinville very noisy packed Univille gymnasium , with some spectators bulling  non sense words  to the world best futsal player Falc...