PARIS: If anyone had paid attention to Dr Joao Carvalhaes, the wider footballing world would have been made to wait before it was treated to the genius of Pele (pic).
“Pele,” Dr Joao Carvalhaes wrote during the 1958 World Cup, “is obviously infantile. He lacks fighting spirit. He is too young to feel aggressions and react in an adequate fashion.
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