Pele acknowledges that last year's World Cup was a "disaster" for Brazil but is not surprised how quickly the likes of Oscar and Ramires have bounced back in the Premier League this season.
Brazil were humiliated by Germany in a 7-1 semifinal defeat and the hosts were then thrashed 3-0 by Netherlands in the third-place play-off.
Pele scored 77 goals in 92 games for Brazil and won the World Cup three times, but the former Santos striker still finds last year's capitulation difficult to understand.
"It was something nobody can explain," said Pele, who was announcing the Art, Life, Football exhibition at the Halcyon Gallery in London.
"When we were preparing for the World Cup the two teams everybody, even people who don't know football, expected to be in the final were Spain and Brazil. Those were the two teams that were supposed to be in the final.
"But the German team, I saw them play two years before and they were very, very good. They were very well prepared.
"And then of course there was the disaster, it really was a disaster. It was something nobody could predict.
"Brazil could lose, 1-0 or 2-0, but to lose 7-1 and the [third place play-off] we lost 3-0, it's something only God can explain."
The five-time World Cup winners have regrouped under new head coach Dunga and Brazil's Premier League based players have shown few ill-effects this season.
Oscar and Ramires have helped Chelsea to a 10-point lead at the top of the table while Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho has been shortlisted for both the Professional Footballers' Association Player and Young Player of the Year awards.
"I am not surprised, I follow the league here," Pele said. "Of course sometimes what happened to Brazil happens in football. You see the team as the best team and they lose.
"It was not a surprise to me [that the players have bounced back]. I had the pleasure to be in a commercial with Oscar recently and I congratulated him."