Pele, who recently turned 80, is suffering with the aches and pains of old age. This, mind you, in the athlete who could be described as one of soccer’s great health nuts, a guy who paid infinite attention to his physical fitness, who was ever fain to point out that he rarely got injured and recovered quickly if he did. And, by and large, that was the truth.
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