{"id":290188,"date":"2023-04-26T20:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290188"},"modified":"2023-04-27T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:59:12","slug":"late-football-legend-pele-added-to-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290188","title":{"rendered":"Late football legend Pele added to dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brazilian dictionary has added "Pel\u00e9"<\/a> as an adjective to use when describing someone who is "exceptional, incomparable, unique."<\/p>\n

The announcement by the Michaelis dictionary is part of a campaign that gathered more than 125,000 signatures to honor the late football great's impact beyond his sport.<\/p>\n

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The dictionary entry reads: "The one that is extraordinary, or who because of his quality, value or superiority cannot be matched to anything or anyone, just like Pel\u00e9; nickname of Edson Arantes do Nascimento (1940-2022), considered the best athlete of all time; exceptional, incomparable, unique. Examples: He is the Pel\u00e9 of basketball, she is the Pel\u00e9 of tennis, she is the Pel\u00e9 of Brazilian theatre, he is the Pel\u00e9 of medicine."<\/p>\n

\"Pele<\/p>\n

The Pel\u00e9 Foundation, Santos FC \u2014 where he played most of his career \u2014 and many Brazilians celebrated the decision by the publishers of one of the country's most popular dictionaries.<\/p>\n

"The expression that was already used to refer to the best at something is already eternal in the pages of the dictionary," Pel\u00e9's social media channels said after the announcement. "We made history together and put the name of the King of Soccer into the Portuguese language. Pel\u00e9 means 'THE BEST'."<\/p>\n

Pel\u00e9 spent nearly two decades enchanting fans and dazzling opponents as the game's most prolific scorer with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national team. In the conversation about football's greatest, only the late Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are mentioned alongside.<\/p>\n

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A Brazilian dictionary has added "Pel\u00e9" as an adjective to use when describing someone who is "exceptional, incomparable, unique." The announcement by the Michaelis dictionary […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290191,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290188\/revisions\/290191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}