Play Football with Pele
Thanks for your interest in learning to play soccer with Pele. We at 360 Soccer came into possesion of a “Play Football with Pele”, 1976, and honestly believe we needed to share the numerous invaluable soccer lessons provided by “O Rei” in this book. We have attempted to accurately reproduce the form and content of this instructional manual.
The game of Soccer will become more fun and rewarding if you take the time to learn his lessons about the game and life as presented in these pages.
We suggest reading reading chapters #11 & #12 first!
i – Introduction (Pele)
ii – Presentation (Julio Mazzei)
Chapter 1 – Controlling the Ball
Chapter 2 – The Pass
Chapter 3 – The Header
Chapter 4 – The Kick
Chapter 5 – The Feint and the Dribble
Chapter 6 – Stopping or “Killing” the Ball
Chapter 7 – Steering the Ball
Chapter 8 – The Free Kick and Penalty
Chapter 9 – The Goalkeeper
Chapter 10 – The Throw-In
Chapter 11 – General Hints
Chapter 12 – Conclusions