2 September 7 Team

CHAPTER 2 September 7 Team Pelé and his friends watched the Bauru professional team and read stories of their soccer heroes around Brazil. When he was ten, Pelé and his friends formed a team of their own. They named it September 7, after the day Brazil gained independence from Portugal in 1822. It was also the name of a nearby street. But team September 7 wanted to do more than just play in the streets. The first thing they needed was a real soccer ball. Pelé had the idea to collect stickers that pictured famous Brazilian soccer players. The stickers were sold with candy and other products. If they saved enough stickers, they

pelpele和他的朋友们在巴西各地观看了Bauru职业球队的比赛，并阅读了他们足球英雄的故事。 当他十岁的时候，pelpele和他的朋友们组成了他们自己的团队。 他们将这一天命名为9月7日，以纪念巴西在1822年从葡萄牙手中获得独立。 这也是附近一条街道的名字。 但是9月7号队想要做的不仅仅是在街上玩。 他们需要的第一件东西是一个真正的足球。 pelpele萌生了收集巴西著名足球运动员的贴纸的想法。 这些贴纸与糖果和其他产品一起出售。 如果他们存了足够的贴纸，他们

could earn a ball. Finding all the stickers was hard work, but finally the boys had all the stickers they needed. The team got their new soccer ball! Since collecting stickers was Pelé's idea, the ball stayed at his house and he became the team's unofficial captain. Being the "keeper of the ball" did have some downsides. Whenever the team broke a window while they were playing, the neighbors went to Pelé's house to complain. And sometimes the

可以赢得一个球。找到所有的贴纸是一项艰苦的工作，但最后男孩们得到了他们需要的所有贴纸。 球队得到了新足球！因为收集贴纸是pelpele的主意，所以球就留在了他家，他成了球队的非官方队长。 作为“守门员”确实有一些缺点。 每当球队在比赛时打破窗户时，邻居们就会去pelpele家抱怨。 有时

boys would hit a light pole and knock out the electricity for a short while... and then everyone pointed at Pelé! But stickers couldn't get them everything they wanted. The team also needed money for shirts and matching socks. And they still did not have soccer cleats. So they decided to change their team name to the Shoeless Ones. One summer, the town held a youth soccer tournament. Pelé and his teammates wanted to enter, but the rules said that all players had to have soccer shoes. So the father of three of the

男孩们会撞到电线杆，使电暂时中断。 然后每个人都指着pelpele ！但贴纸并不能满足他们的一切需求。 球队还需要钱来买衬衫和配套的袜子。 而且他们仍然没有足球鞋。 所以他们决定把球队的名字改为“无鞋队”。 有一年夏天，镇上举办了青少年足球锦标赛。 佩尔佩尔和他的队友想参加比赛，但规则规定所有球员必须穿足球鞋。 所以他是三个孩子的父亲

players bought all the boys new cleats. Shoeless no more, they had to change their name once again and became Amériquinha (say: ah-MAREuh- KEEN-ya), which means "Little America" in English. Though many of the other teams in the tournament had older players, Amériquinha won game after game. They reached the final match, which was played at the same stadium in Bauru where Dondinho played. A large crowd chanted Pelé's name as he scored a big goal, and Amériquinha went home with the championship.

球员们给所有的男孩买了新球鞋。 没有了鞋子，他们不得不再次改名，改名为am<s:1> riquinha（说：ah-MAREuh- KEEN-ya），在英语中的意思是“小美国”。 尽管比赛中的许多其他球队都有年龄较大的球员，但amsamriquinha赢得了一场又一场比赛。 他们进入了最后一场比赛，这场比赛在东迪尼奥在博鲁的同一个球场进行。 当他打进一个重要的进球时，一大群人高呼pelpele的名字，amsamriquinha带着冠军回家了。

After the game, Pelé was thrilled when his father said, "You played a beautiful game. I couldn't have played any better myself!" Pelé's success in this tournament led the Bauru junior team to invite him to play with them. Dondinho was thrilled. But Celeste was not! Pelé's mother wanted him to focus on school and not follow the difficult life of a soccer player. But Pelé knew this was a big step toward his dream, so when he was just thirteen, he became a pro player, receiving a small payment for each game.

比赛结束后，当他的父亲说：“你打了一场漂亮的比赛。 我自己也不能打得更好！”佩尔佩尔在这次比赛中的成功让鲍鲁青年队邀请他和他们一起比赛。 东迪尼奥非常激动。但是塞莱斯特不是！pelpele的母亲希望他专注于学校，而不是跟随足球运动员的艰难生活。 但佩勒佩尔知道这是他向梦想迈出的一大步，所以当他只有13岁的时候，他成为了一名职业球员，每场比赛都能得到一小笔报酬。

On the junior team, known as Baquinho (say: bah-KEEN-oh), he worked with a great coach named Waldemar de Brito. De Brito had played for Brazil's national team in the 1930s and 1940s. It was a great honor for this squad of young teenagers to have such a famous coach. "Baquinho was a strong team," Pelé later wrote, "and under Waldemar we became even stronger. We were invincible." He meant that his team could not be stopped. Led by Pelé's goal-scoring skill, Baquinho won a youth championship for the state of S.o Paulo in early 1955. In one game, he scored seven goals! Before the game, the stadium doorman almost didn't let him inside. He thought the pint-size Pelé was just a kid trying to sneak in without a ticket!

在被称为巴基尼奥（Baquinho）的青年队，他和一位名叫瓦尔德马尔·德布里托（Waldemar de Brito）的伟大教练一起工作。 德布里托曾在20世纪30年代和40年代为巴西国家队效力。 对于这支年轻的球队来说，拥有这样一位著名的教练是一种巨大的荣誉。 “巴基尼奥是一支强大的球队，”佩莱尔后来写道，“在瓦尔德马尔的带领下，我们变得更加强大。 我们是不可战胜的。”他的意思是，他的队伍是不可阻挡的。 1955年初，在佩尔佩尔的进球技巧的带领下，巴基尼奥为圣保罗州赢得了青年联赛冠军。 在一场比赛中，他进了七个球！比赛前，体育场的门卫差点不让他进去。 他以为那个小个子的佩尔佩尔只是个没票就想溜进来的孩子！