Questão 16 - UniRV APARECIDA 2023/2

 A few months ago, it felt as if most of Britain was lining up patiently on the streets of London to pay tribute to the Queen.

 On Monday, at the end of three days of state mourning for Pele, the man enshrined for many of us as the greatest footballer there has ever been, Brazil turned its eyes to Vila Belmiro, a stadium in the port city of Santos, and formed its own version of the Queue to pay tribute to its King. This queue was a beautiful thing. It was a football queue. It was a manifestation of the legacy of joy in the game that Pele created. People had come to mourn him and to attend what had been styled as a public wake for him ahead of his funeral on Tuesday, where a cortege will wind through the streets and past his mother's house before a private, family ceremony, but it felt as if they had come to celebrate everything that football means to them, too.

 […] The closest man Pele had to a spiritual heir in Brazilian football was Zico, who was the star of the 1982 team who spread so much joy in a new generation of fans and did their best to emulate the expressive, creative, joyful football of the 1970 team. So it felt apposite to speak to him about what Pele meant to the country.

 'Every player who comes into the Brazilian national team does it with a huge sense of responsibility,' Zico told me at his football school in Rio de Janeiro recently. 'Pele took this responsibility incredibly seriously and it could be mirrored by how he helped Brazil to be recognised throughout the world. Pele was very important to our national identity. He was an ambassador for us. [...]Pele was Brazil and Brazil was Pele.'

 That is what the people who queued up in the heat in the streets around Vila Belmiro were waiting to pay tribute to on Monday. They were paying tribute not just to the greatest football player there has ever been but to someone who became the country's cultural icon, someone whose joy in the game made people associate Brazil with beauty and happiness and success, too.

 Perhaps there was a greater outpouring of grief when the great Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna was killed at Imola in May 1994 than there was here when Pele died but that is partly because Senna was still a young man when he passed and Pele had been old and frail for some time. Senna was James Dean, forever young, whereas Pele had not kicked a football in a serious match for nearly half a century.

 Despite that, his legend has endured. And even as the world has acclaimed Lionel Messi for the crowning glory of winning the World Cup in Qatar with Argentina last month, so Pele's death has reminded us all that he won the trophy three times.

Disponível em: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11593053/This-queue-beautiful-manifestation legacy-joy-game-Pele-created.html – Oliver Holt

 

Assinale V (verdadeiro) ou F (falso) para as alternativas abaixo de acordo com o texto:

 

( ) O texto inicia mencionando o funeral de Pelé, e posteriormente relata a carreira futebolística do jogador em detalhes, destacando os títulos que ganhou e os times em que jogou.

( ) O autor traça um paralelo entre a fila do funeral da rainha Elizabeth II e a fila do funeral de Pelé no estádio da Vila Belmiro.

( ) Segundo o texto, Pelé foi considerado, unanimemente, o maior jogador de futebol de todos os tempos.

( ) Na visão do autor, as pessoas que estavam na fila, além de irem à Vila Belmiro para prantear Pelé, pareciam celebrar tudo o que o futebol significa para elas.