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The Definitive List of Pele's Best Ever Tweets

By Robbie Copeland

It's Pele's birthday!
It's Pele's birthday! / Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images
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It's Pelé's 80th birthday. So what better way to celebrate than with a collection of his weirdest and most wonderful tweets?

Let's dive straight in.

The One Where the Goalkeeper Cried

Just some casual match-fixing allegations lobbied at the Senegal keeper, here. No big deal.

To be fair, he's probably not the only opponent reduced to tears by Pelé over the years.

'The Referee Sent Himself Off'

One of the all-time greats. How does sending yourself off even work?

Upstaging John Lennon

Who can forget his legendary happy birthday tweet to John Lennon...captioned with a picture that shows no sign of John Lennon.

Just Pelé playing guitar better than John Lennon ever could.

Vaguely Threatening Kylian Mbappé

Fun fact: Cristiano Ronaldo, Mohamed Salah and Kylian Mbappé are the three people Pelé has tweeted most in his eight years on Twitter. He likes to keep tabs on the competition.

Here he is threatening to dust off his boots if Mbappé keeps gunning for him. Just keep adding friendly goals to the record until he gives up and stops trying.

Upstaging Elton John

Joyous wholesome image: ✓
Blatant lie: ✓
Massive needless flex on someone else's birthday: ✓

Pelé Twitter bingo is complete.

Upstaging Cristiano Ronaldo

These are the only stripes for Pelé.

Maradona's Quiet Night

...it's hard to tell if he's joking here.

May the Force Be With You

How long before Pelé announces that it's actually he who fathered Luke Skywalker?

This one is the most random thing to happen since @HamillHimself announced his support for Airdrieonians.

'The Sky Was Crying'

1 October 1977 was the day the sky cried.

I mean, it seems unlikely...but so does over 1,000 career goals.

Look, the guy's 80. Let's just let him say what he wants and smile along with him.