article_snippet.sent: Pele and Franz Beckenbauer Franz Beckenbauer were reunited on Friday to light up the Empire State Building green ahead of the start of the new season.
article_snippet.sent: Franz Beckenbauer are two of the greatest footballers ever to have lived, and the pair played for New York Cosmos together in the late 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: As the former noted, Pele and Franz Beckenbauer were pioneers at the time, bringing football to a territory that had rarely seen the game before.
article_snippet.sent: Franz Beckenbauerleft) and Pele (centre) were reunited in New York on Friday afternoon .
article_snippet.sent: Speaking at the ceremony on Friday, Franz Beckenbauer joked to Pele: 'Your English is better than 30 or 40 years ago when we played together. '
article_snippet.sent: Pele, Pele came in 1975, and I think we were pioneers at the time because no-one here in the country played soccer.'
article_snippet.sent: Brazilian legend Pele, now 74, also had Pele say as the pair flicked the switch to turn on the lights.
article_snippet.sent: Pele (right) runs with the ball, while Franz Beckenbauer Franz Beckenbauer watches on in the background .
article_snippet.sent: Pele and Franz Beckenbauer joined hands at the top, and spoke of Pele and Beckenbauer pride at returning to New York . '
article_snippet.sent: And Franz Beckenbauer, now my partner, is going to suffer together because New York Cosmos come back
highlights_snippet.sent: Pele and Franz Beckenbauer were in New York on Friday to turn the Empire State Building green ahead of the start of their North American Soccer League season .
  