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Pele's 77 goals (in 92 games) for Brazil saw him hold the record as the national team's top goalscorer for over fifty years until it was surpassed by Neymar (in his 125th game) in September 2023. Style of play Pelé dribbling past a defender while playing for Brazil, May 1960
May 6, 2024 · Pelé (born October 23, 1940, Três Corações, Brazil—died December 29, 2022, São Paulo, Brazil) was a Brazilian football (soccer) player, in his time probably the most famous and possibly the best-paid athlete in the world. He was part of the Brazilian national teams that won three World Cup championships (1958, 1962, and 1970).
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Of Pele’s 77 international goals with Brazil, 12 were scored at the FIFA World Cup – and to date, the Brazilian remains the youngest player to score at the g...
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Dec 30, 2022 · Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cups and became the sport’s first global icon, has died at the age of 82. “Everything that we are, is thanks to you,” his daughter Kely ...
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Dec 29, 2022 · Pelé, one of soccer’s greatest players and a transformative figure in 20th-century sports who achieved a level of global celebrity few athletes have known, died on Thursday in São Paulo. He...
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Pelé former footballer from Brazil Centre-Forward * Oct 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil.
Dec 29, 2022 · Dec. 29, 2022. Of all the myriad things Pelé did — the thousand-plus goals he scored and the array of records he set and the innumerable, immeasurable moments of wonder he conjured — the one that...
