A Dream Come True For Pele // Soccer Legend Worked Hard to Bring the World Cup to U.S.

Chicago Sun-Times | October 10, 1993| | Copyright

Perhaps nobody is looking forward to next year's World Cup more than Pele, who had a dream to bring the tournament to the United States nearly two decades ago.

The greatest player in soccer history - now a goodwill ambassador for the sport as well as for his native Brazil - was campaigning for the United States to be a host of the World Cup back in the 1970s.

"It is very hard to describe now," Pele says. "When FIFA announced it had chosen the U.S., it was so nice to me, so good, I couldn't come up with words to describe my happiness.

"Everybody knows when I came to play with the Cosmos ...

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