Pele ‘the first ambassador for erectile dysfunction’ said he never used viagra
Pele may have been the first-ever ambassador for erectile dysfunction but the Brazilian legend insisted he never needed to use viagra.
The three-time World Cup winner passed away aged 82 years-old on December 29 2022. He leaves as the only player to win three World Cups and with an enviable goal tally recorded as 1281 goals.
And if his talent and prestige was not unique enough, he also departs this life as the first ever ambassador for erectile dysfunction. However, that does not mean he ever took one of the famous blue pills.
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“I haven’t used it, not yet,” Pele laughed when asked if he had ever used it in 2011. “My contract was to tell people to use it with prescription not that I started to use it.”
Pele started working for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in 2002, to raise awareness about erectile dysfunction. He travelled the world on behalf of the company giving talks about the struggles hundreds of thousands, if not, millions of men endured.
"At the beginning I was surprised [to be approached by Pfizer] and in Brazil a lot of friends of mine told me to be careful and to find out what is the real message, what is the real campaign,” Pele said as quoted by the Independent in 2003. “But when I was in New York I got all the information on the situation all over the world and I thought that it is good to be part of this."
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Pele’s main focus of working with Pfizer was to try and encourage men to open up about a subject that was otherwise very uncomfortable to talk about. "In the campaign we talk about taboo. As men we don't talk too much about our problems. I thought this was cultural, but it is not. We started the campaign in Japan.
“The Japanese are very different to Brazilians or Europeans. They were different, but the same. This problem of ED is universal. It doesn't matter about the culture.
"To me that was a very good experience because I thought when we started that Latins would be different to Scandinavians because they are hot, they have, as we say, the carnival, whereas the Scandinavians are cold. But the same problem is all over the world.”
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