3 Young Star

CHAPTER 3 Young Star Waldemar de Brito continued to teach Pelé and other young players about the game they loved. But in early 1955, de Brito got an offer to move to the city of Santos in the state of S.o Paulo to work for another club. De Brito sat down with Dondinho and Celeste and told them that he thought Pelé should play for his new club, called Santos Futebol Clube (or Santos FC). Celeste was still worried about her "baby." Dondinho trusted de Brito, however, S.o Paulo was not as big or as far away as Rio de Janeiro. It was only around two hundred miles from Bauru. Pelé, of course, was thrilled. Together, the family decided that the teenage star should take the next step in his career.

年轻的球星瓦尔德马尔·德·布里托继续教pelpele和其他年轻球员关于他们喜欢的运动。 但在1955年初，德布里托得到了一份工作邀请，让他搬到圣保罗州的桑托斯市，为另一家俱乐部工作。 德布里托与东迪尼奥和塞莱斯特坐下来，告诉他们，他认为佩莱尔应该为他的新俱乐部桑托斯足球俱乐部（或桑托斯FC）效力。 塞莱斯特还在担心她的“孩子”。 然而，东迪尼奥信任德布里托，圣保罗不像里约热内卢那么大，也不像里约热内卢那么远。 它离博鲁只有200英里左右。 当然，pelpele非常激动。 全家人一起决定，这位少年明星应该在他的职业生涯中迈出下一步。

For the train ride to S.o Paulo, Celeste made Pelé his first pair of long pants. Dondinho traveled to S.o Paulo with Pelé. Waldemar de Brito met them at the train station. Together, the trio headed to the Santos stadium, called Vila Belmiro. On the way, Pelé saw the tall skyscrapers of the city and marveled at the crowds of people. Once, a teacher had told Pelé that the ocean was salty. Now he had a chance to

在去圣保罗的火车上，塞莱斯特给佩莱尔做了他的第一条长裤。 东迪尼奥和佩莱埃尔一起前往圣保罗。 瓦尔德马·德·布里托在火车站迎接他们。 三人一起前往名为维拉·贝尔米罗的桑托斯体育场。 在路上，pelpele看到了这座城市的摩天大楼，并对人群感到惊讶。 有一次，一位老师告诉pelpele海水是咸的。 现在他有机会了

see for himself. He asked to stop at a S.o Paulo beach so he could taste the ocean to make sure. "You can't imagine how grand it all was for me," he wrote later. At the stadium, Pelé watched the team in action and then met the players—all older than he was. Many knew Dondinho from his long years as a player. One of them was Vasconselos, the team's star. "Put your mind at rest. He'll be safe with us," he told his old friend. Dondinho returned to Celeste knowing that his son was in good hands.

自己看吧。他要求在圣保罗的一个海滩停下来，这样他就可以品尝一下大海的味道。 “你无法想象这一切对我来说有多重要，”他后来写道。 在体育场，pelpele观看了球队的比赛，然后见到了球员们——他们都比他大。 许多人从他作为球员的漫长岁月中认识了东迪尼奥。 其中之一就是球队的明星瓦斯康塞洛斯。 “放心吧。他和我们在一起会很安全的，”他告诉他的老朋友。 东迪尼奥回到塞莱斯特，知道他的儿子得到了很好的照顾。

Pelé was very nervous. He was given a small room in a dormitory for single players. It was the first time Pelé had lived apart from his family, and he was sad. He was also worried about whether he could play with the older, bigger players on the Santos team. He couldn't even call his mother, since the family did not have a telephone back in Bauru. "I was only fifteen, and suddenly I had to live with strange people in a strange place," he wrote later. "I was afraid of failing, but even more, I was afraid of the dark!" After missing a penalty shot during a game, Pelé tried to sneak back home to Bauru. He was homesick. He had lost his confidence. He was also afraid he would never grow big enough to play with the larger players. As he tried to sneak out of the stadium unnoticed, the team assistant, Big Sabu, stopped him and convinced Pelé to give it one more shot. Sabu did not want Pelé to give up so easily. He told the teenager, "If you try running away again, I'll take that suitcase away from you!"

pelpele非常紧张。宿舍里给了他一个单人房间。 这是佩莱尔第一次和家人分开生活，他很伤心。 他也担心自己能否和桑托斯队的大个子球员一起踢球。 他甚至不能给他的母亲打电话，因为在博鲁的家里没有电话。 “我只有15岁，突然间我不得不在一个陌生的地方和陌生的人住在一起，”他后来写道。 “我害怕失败，但更可怕的是，我害怕黑暗！”在一场比赛中罚丢点球后，佩尔佩尔试图偷偷溜回鲍鲁。 他想家了。他失去了信心。 他还担心自己永远长不大，不能和大个子球员一起打球。 当他试图偷偷溜出球场时，球队的助理教练大萨布（Big Sabu）拦住了他，并说服他再试一次。 Sabu不希望pelpele这么容易就放弃。 他对少年说：“如果你再逃跑，我就把你的箱子拿走！”