I remember watching him play for the Cosmos as a kid. After he retired I lost touch with the game until about 15 years ago when Beckham and Rooney were popular in the EPL, and it could watch them on cable. He was the one all others were compared to, but there was no equal. Rest in Paradise, GOAT...
Same here. I'm unsure how I became aware of Pele, but I knew who he was while living in a sea of soccer ignorance. Maybe it was the Weekly Reader or something but somehow my friends and I knew of Pele.