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Edison Arantes do Nascimento or as the world knows him as Pele . He is named after Thomas Alva Edison. But he gets the name Pele, this way. When he was small the Vasco Dagama goalkeeper was named Bile. But Pele always pronounced it as Pele and now the name has stuck for good.
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