Pele, 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). Learn more about Pele’s life and career.
WTKR: Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of soccer, has died after bout with cancer
Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the ...
Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of soccer, has died after bout with cancer
Brazil's soccer star Pelé bicycle-kicks a ball during a game in 1968. Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer, won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last ...
International soccer will sweep into Seattle this summer. Not for the first time. On — 50 years ago last week — Brazilian icon Pelé opened the Kingdome with appropriate panache. In the ...
News 12 Networks: Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of soccer, dies at 82
“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...
TwinCities.com: Before Lionel Messi, Pele’s ‘aura’ captured Minnesota soccer fans in 1976
Lionel Messi was not the first international soccer superstar to play in Minnesota on Saturday. Before the Argentine midfielder scored for Inter Miami in Minnesota United’s 4-1 win in St. Paul, Pele ...