Willis Carrier

Carrier and all three of his wives are buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Tarcisio Burgnich, the famous Italian defender who marked Pelé in the 1970 World Cup Finals: "I told myself before the game, 'he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else' - but I was wrong". In 2000 the Carrier Corporation had sales of more than $8 billion and employed some 45,000 people. Pelé has published several best-selling autobiographies, starred in documentary and semi-documentary films and composed various musical pieces, including the entire soundtrack for the film 'Pelé' in 1977. The introduction of residential air conditioning in the 1920s helped start the great migration to the Sunbelt. Pelé was one of the first black people to be featured on the cover of Life Magazine. By increasing industrial production in the summer months, air conditioning revolutionized American life. After winning his second World Cup in 1962, wealthy European clubs offered massive fees to sign the young player, but the government of Brazil declared Pelé an official national treasure to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.

The company pioneered the design and manufacture of refrigeration machines to cool large spaces. Pelé is the first sports figure featured on a video game with the Atari 2600 game Pelé's Soccer. Japan is now the largest market for air conditioning in the world. In 1970, the two factions involved in a civil war in Nigeria agreed for a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos. In 1930, he started Toyo Carrier in Japan. Pelé is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Carrier moved his company to Syracuse, New York in the 1930s, and the company became one of the largest employers in central New York.
In the same year, Pelé received the Laureus World Sports Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from South African President Nelson Mandela.

He installed the first home air conditioning in a house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (For details of the controversial process, see Sports Illustrated Article). Some of the company's first customers included Madison Square Gardens and the chambers of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. In December 2000, Pelé was named Footballer of the Century by a "Family of Football" committee appointed by FIFA, after a web poll favored Diego Maradona. Carrier, with six colleagues, staked $32,600 on their own company, Carrier Engineering Corporation. He was voted athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1999. When World War I arrived, Buffalo Forge was forced to cut back on speculative processes, and eliminated their air conditioning division. In 1995, he was appointed an Ambassador for UNESCO at the Goodwill Games.

He went on to work on other cooling and humidity-control inventions, and was eventually made the head of the Buffalo Forge subsidiary named Carrier Air Conditioning Company in his honor. In 1992, Pelé was appointed a United Nations Ambassador for Ecology and the Environment. In 1906 Carrier received a patent for his method. In 1997, he was given an honorary British knighthood. The firm had been unable to print reliable colors at times because of the effects of heat and humidity on paper and ink. He was awarded Brazil's Gold Medal for outstanding services to the sport, before becoming Sports Minister in 1994. At the age of 25, he devised his first important invention, a system to control heat and humidity for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Company in Brooklyn. In his 92 appearances for the Brazilian team, he scored 77 goals.

Carrier soon developed a better way to measure the capacity of heating systems and was named director of the company's experimental engineering department. He ended his career with a total of 1281 goals in 1363 matches, becoming the highest goalscorer in professional football ever. Following college, he went to work for the Buffalo Forge Company, a company which manufactured heaters, blowers and air exhaust systems, in their heating engineering department designing heating systems to dry lumber and coffee. Pelé is in third place in the list of all-time top goalscorers in World Cup play, with 12 goals, and he is the only player who won three World Cups with his team. In 1895 he received a scholarship to Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Nascimento, 35, was arrested along with some 50 other people after an eight-month investigation into a cocaine trafficking operation in the port city of Santos. He loved mathematics, and studied it at every chance, when he wasn't inventing his own devices. In 2005, Pelé drew international media attention due to the imprisonment of Edson Cholbi Nascimento, his son, who was arrested in an operation to dismantle a drug gang in southeastern Brazil.

Carrier was born in Angola, New York on the shore of Lake Erie, and inherited his mother's love for "tinkering", with clocks, sewing machines, and other household devices. Pelé is certainly one of the most famous men in football, with his nickname being recognized even by those unfamiliar with the sport. He is considered to be at least partially responsible for the economic boom of the American Southwest as his invention meant that people were able to move into areas previously considered uninhabitable in the summer months. Pelé is a long-standing contributor for children's rights at UNICEF and acts as the figurehead of a charity for erectile dysfunction. Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 - October 9, 1950) was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented air conditioning. In 1995, President Cardoso appointed Pelé to the position of Minister of Sports. He also played in a friendly match with the Lebanese club Nejmeh in 1974 (see Football in Lebanon).

The exhibition game was sold out six weeks beforehand. He played his last game as a professional on October 1, 1977 in front of a capacity crowd at Giants Stadium against his old club, Santos; he played the first half with the Cosmos and the second half with Santos. After his retirement from Brazilian football on October 3, 1974, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. His unrivalled talent in by far the world's most popular sport has led many to consider him to have been the finest sportsman in the history of the world.

His immense haul of over twelve hundred career goals in all competitions has not even come close to being matched by any other man in the history of the professional game. Pelé's sublime technique and deft touch combined with his phenomenal dribbling skills and incredible scoring ability cannot be overstated. Brazil defeated Italy 4-1 in the final, with Pelé scoring one and gloriously setting up Jairzinho for another in what some still consider to be the finest ever world cup. The 1970 team, featuring famous players like Rivelino, Jairzinho, and Tostão, is often considered to be the greatest team ever.

Although his contributions were limited in the 1962 and 1966 campaigns because of injuries inflicted by the dirty play of opposition players, the 1970 tournament in Mexico was to be Pelé's last. He played in three more Brazilian world cup teams in 1962, 1966 and 1970, two of which Brazil won (1962 and 1970). In 1958, Pelé became the youngest ever World Cup winner in Sweden at 17, scoring two goals in the final as Brazil crushed Sweden 5-2 in Stockholm. Just ten months after signing professionally, the teenager was called up to the Brazilian national team.

When the new season started, Pelé was given a starting place in the first team and, at the age of just sixteen, became the top scorer in the league. Pelé was offered professional terms and scored four goals in his first league game. De Brito told the directors at Santos that the fifteen year old would be "the greatest football player in the world". In 1956, Pele's mentor took him to the city of São Paulo, to try out for professional club Santos.

At the age of eleven, Pelé was scouted by Brazilian legend Waldemar de Brito and was invited to join de Brito's amateur team, Clube Atlético Bauru. He was given his first leather ball on his sixth birthday by his father's teammate, Sosa. Growing up in poverty on the streets of Bauru, he could not afford a football and usually played with either a sock stuffed with papers or a grapefruit. Later in life, when reflecting that the world came to know the name, he stated his belief that it was chosen for him by God.

He originally disliked the nickname, but the more he complained the more he was called by it. He was named after American inventor Thomas Edison, and did not receive the nickname "Pelé" until his school days. Edson was born in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the son of Fluminense footballer João Ramos do Nascimento, also known as Dondinho. .

Since his full retirement in 1977 he has served as an ambassador for the sport. Over the course of his career, Pelé scored over a thousand goals and won three world cups. Technically outstanding, he also became famed for his lightning speed and his strength on the ball. He was often considered to be the complete footballer, as he was completely two-footed, a prolific finisher, exceptional at dribbling and passing, and was a remarkably good tackler for a forward.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, KBE (born October 23, 1940), nicknamed Pelé, a Brazilian, is a former football player and thought by many to be the finest player of all time.