Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as PELE, the best known living football player in the world, a living legend whom every football afficionado knows just by his name PELE, is the biggest global sporting phenomenon!

Very tough question as you have pin pointed 25 yrs which start with 1988. Not just that you have used the word global too. In the 1988 Olympics Ben Johnson won the 100 m race in world record time, but later the world was shocked that he was doing drugs and the person who came second was declared the winner and that person was the legendary Carl Lewis, who had won four gold medals in 1984 Olympics. Despite winning two more golds in 4 x 100m (which is a team event) and long jump, Lewis was not at his best in Seoul Olympics. Maradona who had with his magical football had made Argentina win the 1986 Mexico World Cup was not at his best in the 1990 World Cup even though as a captain he adopted defensive tactics and made the weak Argentine team reach the finals. Michael Schumacher, won seven F1 Championships and was one of the greatest driverd in F1, but for winning had to come at any cost and in one of world championships he deliberately crashed the car of Nigel Prost, his nearest competito ...more

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