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Pele is no fan of television instant replays
He said rules governing defensive walls at free-kicks should be changed to give more advantage to the attacking team, and said he hated defenders standing over the ball to prevent free-kicks being taken quickly. BIGGEST CHANGE "I am a forward, and sometimes the defenders come to kick you," he said, with a wry smile. "Why can't we change the wall? If you come from the midfield and dribble past one, two, three, four players and you get in the box and...foul! "Then the wall is against you, this is ridiculous, I don't know why they don't change that." Pele, who scored 1,281 goals in a career with Brazil's Santos, the New York Cosmos and the Brazilian team that won two World Cups, said the biggest change in the game since his days had been off the field. "I think the involvement of big companies, sponsorship, has made the game become more competitive," he said. "But on the other side, the competition has become too hard. What makes me feel afraid and a little uncomfortable is the young people today lose a little the love for the game." Big money discouraged any sense of loyalty for clubs, said Pele, who turned
down dozens of European offers in the 1960s.
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