Pele: His Life and Times

by Harry Harris

In this unprecedented look at the man behind the myth, award-winning sportswriter Harry Harris brilliantly charts the meteoric rise of the small-town boy who became a living legend.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sports, Football, Biography

272 pages, Hardcover

First published November 26, 2001

About the author

Has written one of the most influential football columns in the country for more than three decades, where his work on Fleet Street has seen him awarded the British Sports Journalist of the Year award on two occasions

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Reviews

[yerrrr · Rating 2 out of 5]

the quality of harris's research and story-telling are really called into question over his continuous grammatical/translation mistakes (there are three missing portuguese accents on the first page alone) and his unapologetic bias and political opinions bleeding through, especially in the latter half of the book. really hard to say this is a good biography of pelé when you can't even spell his daughter's name correctly.

[Sunny · Rating 4 out of 5]

so my top 3 is : 1. maradona, 2. pele, 3. zidane - but learnt lots more about Pele here that i never knew. he only played for 2 professional sides - Santos and Cosmos, he was a lot more violent at times than he is percieved to believe. a much better businessman than he is known for also. teh biggest thing that comes out in the book is the way he felt like giving back to the community and other children all the time - and do it naturally. he had some intersting opinions on some of the english footballers of the 60-90s era also which were eye openning. to have won the world cup at 17 - not many people in the world will evver be ablee to say that.

[Edgar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book. It had really good descriptions of Pele's skills and what he felt during games, wins or losses. The only thing that I didn't like was that the author started writing about more political things than soccer things. Other than that, the book was really good. It described Pele's conflicts in life and also the moments of happiness.

[Romteen · Rating 3 out of 5]

good book if you like soccer or you think he's really cool otherwise your wasting your time

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is the best book! awesooooooome

[Greg Parlane · Rating 4 out of 5]

If anyone is a Pele' fan this is a great book of his life and football. A must read if you're a true Pele' fan.