Brazilian legend embodies boundless hope for humanity (6)
I believe the answer is:
people
'humanity' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'brazilian legend embodies boundless hope' is the wordplay.
'brazilian legend' becomes 'pele' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'embodies' indicates putting letters inside.
'boundless' means to look at the middle letters (the limits or bounds of the word are removed).
The central letters of 'hope' are 'op'.
'pele' placed around 'op' is 'PEOPLE'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for people that I've seen before include "country folk" , "Race - mankind" , "Community" , "Persons in general" , "Newspaper" .)