Brazil World Cup winner and football legend, Pele passes away.
30th Dec 2022
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Brazil World Cup winner and football legend, Pele passes away.
- Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, famously called Pele, has passed away aged 82. Many of the greatest footballers of all time consider him.
- He was instrumental in Brazil’s three World Cup victories in 1958, 1962, and 1970. He is still the top scorer for Brazil national team with 77 goals in 92 games.
- He retired from Santos in 1974 but a year later made a surprise comeback by signing a lucrative deal to join the New York Cosmos in the then-nascent North American Soccer League.
- Pele was named “Athlete of the Century” by the International Olympic Committee, co- “Football Player of the Century” by the world soccer body FIFA, and a “national treasure” by Brazil’s government.
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