We are going deep into the tournament which defined greatness and one of its greatest exponents is about leave earth.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé has been moved to palliative care.
That means the care they give you when they help you pass on to wherever humans go when they stopped breathing.
Joga Bonito they called it. The beautiful game. In winning its most important moment three times he made us believe. And believe that the game must be beautiful in order to win.
Pelé is lot a lot of how beautiful football became.
Tonight, the lights in Doha remain in his name.
He is to soon depart as he stopped responding to chemotherapy.
Cancer will win this round. But Pelé has won the battle for the beauty of football.
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