Pele is ready to pay up 700,000 dollars to UNICEF (28.11.2001)
RIO DE JANEIRO,
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, to say simpler, Pele, declared about his being ready to pay up 700,000 dollars to UNISEF from his own savings.
It is worth mentioning that before that he was accused for grabbing the above sum from UNISEF of Argentina.
"Everybody knows how much I love children and now I will have to listen to all this absurd accusations to my address. But I`m ready to pay UNISEF this sum," declared the football king.
The scandal rose last week, when the daily Folha de Sao Paulo revealed that the company Pele, Sports & Marketing had grabbed 700,000 dollars received from the company Sports Vision
for benevolent action.
The above action never was brought to life, and Sports Vision never again saw this money. Pele had received the sum with his former friend and companion Helio Vianna. Then he broke his friendship with the latter, who, according to the Brazilian mass media, was guilty for irregularities in Pele, Sports & Marketing.
Vianna hinted the mass media at the above money being spent by Pele to sign midfielder Giovanni.
Pele, who had gone to South Korea to participate in the 2002 WC finals` draw, announced that all the words of his former friend are nonsense.
"I will fight for my reputation, as far as I`m innocent."
