maxim
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: “It’s Time To Clean Brazil Up”, Insists Pelé |
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Oh Oh Pelé is back on the scene and he looks to be a black Bill Cosby talk on Brazil's soccer community.
| Quote: | “It’s Time To Clean Brazil Up”, Insists Pelé
10/4/2005 4:23:00 PM
Pelé made a vigorous appeal for strong punishments to be meted out on those responsible for match-rigging. During a press conference given to mark the inauguration of the ‘Modesto Roma’ wing of Santos’ training facility at the CT Rei Pelé (King Pelé Training Centre), Edson was between indignation and nausea as he spoke out.
“What we really need is for exemplary punishments to be handed down. We simply can’t afford to fall into the trap of sweeping what happened under the carpet. This is the time to clean up Brazilian football once and for all” the athlete of the 20th century explained in an interview given to audio station Rádio Bandeirantes, attacking a personal pet hate.
He also reminded listeners that the result-fixing by bent refs Paulo José Danelon and Edílson Pereira de Carvalho was not exactly news. “It’s hardly the first time that this sort of thing has happened – just look back at the lottery scandals of the 1980’s. It’s a sorry business that stains the good name of Brazil: the country that still boasts the best and biggest football in the world.”
In Pelé’s eyes Brazil has to fight against a whole host of other problems, and football, holding a quasi-religious aura here, is in a position to harm or help these other issues improve. For the mythical number 10 the beautiful game almost has a responsibility towards the population, with a clear potential to lead through example.
“Today, unfortunately, we have numerous immoral bandits in various areas of Brazilian life [referring to President Lula’s current problems with corruption in his government], partly because we failed as a society in the education of the young, and the results are there for all to see. Football is in desperate need of attention before things really go off the tracks”.
Pelé stressed that there was a distinction between the good, the bad and the ugly. “We also mustn’t forget that every profession has its good and bad professionals. For every corrupt official there are many more upright officials – we need to make that distinction clear, get rid of the rotten minority and ensure that the game is above all suspicion.”
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