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he did so much to grow the popularity of the sport, particularly here in the americas, in the united states. but he just meant a lot to so many people. he did. and he was able to really make the sport global. because as said, soccer was not a real global sport in terms of people in this country and others following it. pele is the one that crossed it over. and the thing they thought about when i heard of his passing is that nelson mandela, i was at a meeting one day, when he said, the way he tried to unite south africa and later they did a movie about it, was with soccer. he would go to the soccer game and stand with the soccer team and many of theafricanas that were opposed to him couldn t believe it. that s what pele did. he wasn t an activist like ali,

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