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by Jimmy Burns Among the claims to football greatness, those of Pele and Maradona,   who died within just over  two years of each other,  will endure as a contrast in character and iconography,  defining between them the developing story of modern football. Pele’s  emerged  on the international scene as  a skinny seventeen-year-old in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. He went on to straddle the transition of football from a game to a serious business venture, breaking cultural  and racial boundaries , his true potential barely registered by the  grey …

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