In 1973, Pelé appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to show off his soccer skills to the late night audience.
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Yet there was a small problem. The Brazilian government had declared Pelé an “unexportable national treasure,” prompting involvement from the U.S. State Department and some contractual maneuvering. Pelé, who had two gold hits in Brazil as a guitarist, would be employed as a “recording artist” at Atlantic Records, which shared a parent company with the team. From then on, he was a man on a mission: to bring soccer to the American people.
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