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Dec 29, 2022 · Pelé, the Brazilian soccer icon who brought the World Cup trophy to his home country three times, becoming an international superstar and the highest-paid team athlete in the world at the time ...
Dec 29, 2022 · Pelé, who died at 82, was a sports star and cultural icon. FILE - In this July 27, 1977, file photo, pop artist Andy Warhol, left, makes a photograph of Pele for use in painting a portrait of the soccer superstar in New York. (AP Photo/Claudia Larson, File) By Mauricio Savarese. Published 1:47 PM PDT, December 29, 2022.
Dec 29, 2022 · In 1982, Pele and his wife, Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi, divorced. Pele was then involved in a romantic relationship with a TV presenter Xuxa. She was just 17 at that time. In 1992, he was appointed as a UN ambassador for ecology and the environment. In April 1994, he married psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas and had twins with her.
Dec 29, 2022 · Watch Pele's greatest #FIFAWorldCup moments as the world mourns the loss of a footballing icon. A tribute from FIFA President Gianni Infantino: https://www.f...
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Dec 29, 2022 · Pele's cancer worsens, kidneys and heart affected, say doctors The image of Pelé in a bright, yellow Brazil jersey, with the No. 10 stamped on the back, remains alive with soccer fans everywhere.
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Football has lost its king. Pelé, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, passed away on December 29th in São Paulo, Brazil at 82 years old, losing a long battle against cancer that had spread to several organs in his body. The only men’s football player to have won three FIFA World Cup titles (1958, 1962 and 1970), the Brazilian was one of the ...
Dec 29, 2022 · When Pelé was 15, a local coach, Waldemar de Brito, took him to play for the football club Santos. Upon arriving in the city that shares the name with the club, Brito told the coach, “This kid ...
