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Rein in your temper, Pele advises Rooney

Berlin: Anger is just one letter short of danger and Pele, arguably the best football player ever, has advised volatile England forward Wayne Rooney to curb his temper and show more maturity and patience while dealing on-field incidents.

Rooney was shown the red card after stamping on Portugal custodian Ricardo Carvalho and a 10-man England lost the quarterfinal on penalties and Pele felt the striker should show more patience in dealing with this kind of situation.

``I'd like to give Wayne a little bit of advice — every big player will be marked closely. It will be the same with Wayne as it was with me, with Bobby Charlton, with Maradona — every opposing manager will tell his players to get tight, mark close, be aggressive.

``He must learn to expect it and to deal with it calmly,'' the 65-year-old Brazilian legend told BBC Sports. ``My advice is be calm and then you can beat the player on the football pitch, not by losing your temper,'' he added. — UNI

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