DAYS before his 80th birthday, Brazilian football great Pelé told his fans he was happy and healthy and pleased to be reaching the landmark with his lucid mental state. Pelé has been shielding at home in Brazil for most of the COVID-19 pandemic but in a jovial recorded message ahead of his landmark birthday on Friday he looked ahead not back. "Now that I am 80, I need to thank God for giving me the health to get this far, and lucidly, although not always intelligently," he said with a laugh in a short video sent to the media to…