Pelé

Won three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962, 1970) across three separate career phases with the Brazilian national team, alongside a lengthy club career at Santos.

Delivered the pass for Carlos Alberto's iconic goal in the 1970 World Cup final by recognizing a specific rehearsed set-play mid-match -- a tactic the team had prepared and used in previous games.

As a boy too poor for real equipment, made his own ball from stuffed newspapers and socks to play barefoot with a neighborhood group, and around age 13 cleaned senior teammates' boots for coins specifically to save toward his first real football.

Finding concrete, self-directed ways to keep playing and to fund his own equipment under real material scarcity is part of the basis for the profile's resourcefulness score. Resourcefulness

Declined the New York Cosmos' offer in person on three separate occasions in 1974 citing fear of the Brazilian public's reaction, wavered only after his adviser laid out the case, verbally accepted, then publicly reversed that acceptance before finally committing months later.

This drawn-out, repeatedly-reversed decision process is part of the basis for the profile's decisiveness score. Decisiveness