These Athletes Don’t Go By Their First Name And I Feel I’ve Been Lied To

Edson Arantes do Nascimento

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Brazilian soccer star Pele displays the FIFA World Cup during its presentation in Rio de Janeiro in February 2010. Pele’s World Cup winner’s medals from 1958, 1962 and 1970 are up for auction

Anyone recognize this famous soccer star? Bueller? Okay, I give up, I didn’t know it either. Pele’s actual name is as great as his soccer career was. Without him, soccer fans would be clueless behind the bicycle kick. To think, he punched a classmate because they gave him the nickname.