By Andrew Downie (Reuters) – Before Pele made his debut for Brazil, the South American nation had never won the World Cup. By the time he retired, they had won three – more than any other team. Arguably Pele’s greatest contribution to both soccer and Brazil was to transform his underachieving nation into a footballing superpower. “Pre-1958 Brazil has a rich football heritage but it was not the country of football,” David Tryhorn, co-director of the 2021 Netflix documentary “Pele,” told Reuters. “Post-1970 the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Brazil is football. And while there i…