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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi again, everyone, I'm Eves and you're listening

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Speaker 1: to This Day in History Class, where instead of going

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Speaker 1: back to the future, we go back to the past.

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Speaker 1: Today is November nineteen. The day was November nineteenth. Nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty nine. Brazilian soccer player Pele scored his thousandth goal

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Speaker 1: in a game against Fasco da Gama at the Maracana Stadium,

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Speaker 1: and Rio de Janeiro Pale was his nickname. He was

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Speaker 1: born at Saint add On to don Cement and he

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Speaker 1: grew up poor in the south of Brazil. By the

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Speaker 1: time he was fifteen years old, he was a professional

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Speaker 1: athlete with the Santos Football Club. The Santos Football Club

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Speaker 1: was successful with Pele on the team. In nineteen fifty eight,

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Speaker 1: not long after he signed professionally, he was called up

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Speaker 1: to the Zil national team. That year, Brazil won its

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Speaker 1: first World Cup title, with Pele as the star of

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Speaker 1: the tournament. Brazil went on to win the World Cup

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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two and nineteen seventy with Pele on

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Speaker 1: the team. Bale has been considered the only player to

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Speaker 1: have won three World Cups, though He was injured for

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Speaker 1: most of the nineteen sixty two tournament and sat out.

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Speaker 1: The Brazilian government even declared him a national treasure to

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Speaker 1: keep him in Brazil. His scoring success had even led

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Speaker 1: to opponents trying to throw him off or incapacitate him

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Speaker 1: during matches, but he still scored an average of seventy

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Speaker 1: seven goals per year. By nineteen sixty nine, he was

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Speaker 1: getting close to a significant milestone, his thousandth goal. There

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Speaker 1: were a few other soccer players who had scored a

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Speaker 1: thousand goals before him, Franz Bender, Joseph Beatsan and Our

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Speaker 1: Tour Freed and Reich. Fans had been counting down since

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Speaker 1: the previous month. He got to nine and ninety three

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Speaker 1: goals in October fifteenth match against Portugez, then scored his

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Speaker 1: next six goals against corri Ciba, Flamenco, Santa Cruz and

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Speaker 1: Bota Fogo of Paraiba State. People were expecting him to

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Speaker 1: score his thousandth goal in the Pardaiba game after he

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Speaker 1: scored his nine hundred and ninety nine with the penalty kick,

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Speaker 1: but Pele ended up having to take over as goalie

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Speaker 1: for his sick teammate. People around the world were following

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Speaker 1: his journey to his thousandth goal. A crowd of around

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Speaker 1: eighty thousand people gathered for Santos this November nineteenth match

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Speaker 1: against Fasco du Gama, a real day jan Niro based team.

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Speaker 1: Pell was twenty nine years old. It was his nine

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Speaker 1: and ninth first class match. His opponents told him that

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Speaker 1: he would not score against them that day, but he did.

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Speaker 1: He scored his thousandth goal on a penalty kick. Balloons

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Speaker 1: were released in celebration. Fans ran out onto the field

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Speaker 1: and Pele was given a shirt with the number one

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Speaker 1: thousand on the back. Pell was substituted in. Santos went

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Speaker 1: on to win the game two to one. He had

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Speaker 1: reached mile Simo, or the thousand. Throughout his career, he

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Speaker 1: scored an average of a goal per game and net

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Speaker 1: it nearly dred goals. This number is debatable for some

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Speaker 1: people who dispute the inclusion of his goals and friendlies

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Speaker 1: and tour games. Pele retired from professional soccer permanently in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven and became a sports commentator. I'm Eave

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