Pele

Pele is a legend of the beautiful game who worked very hard to bag the position of being the number one soccer player in the world. He was 17 years old when he scored 6 goals in the 1958 World Cup and won his team, Brazil its first title. He started playing at the age of 15 and played for the Santos club for quite some time. He played on the international grounds at the age of 16 and became the star of soccer at the 1958 World Cup. Pele too suffered his share of injuries and breakdowns, but made a glorious comeback to win his team another World Cup in 1970.