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Brazilian football legend Pele celebrates 80th birthday

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Brazilian former footballer Pele waves on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen after presenting Rio's bid for the 2016 Olympics. (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)

How fitting that a sport revered for uncomplicated beauty has as its greatest exponent a man with such a simple name.

Pele. Four letters, two ­syllables, one legend.

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