In the 1970s, the famous Brazilian football player Pele (1)_____________________of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Football, or soccer, wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time.
Few North Americans knew anything about this fast-moving sport. There was (2)____________________and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges.
When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities, (3)______________________was and began to go to the matches. It is now common for important games to have fifty to sixty thousand fans.
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作者: susan.sui 时间: 2014-2-14 15:20
retired from the national team
no money to pay professional players
people saw how interesting it was.
