Across the world, there is sadness: Pele is gone. A football original, Pele was revered, loved and copied, the focal point of a Brazil team arriving on stage just as coverage of football moved from ...

FIFA said Pele was simply "immortal" after the Brazil legend, named by world football's governing body as the greatest player of the 20th century, died on Thursday aged 82. Pele is the only footballer ...

Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the stadium where Pele played for most of his career. Pele died last week at age 82 and was laid to rest in ...

After battling weeks of deteriorating health, the greatest footballer of the planet breathed his last in a Sao Paulo hospital at the age of 82 Pele, the planet’s most famous footballer, the sport’s ...

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, is widely regarded as the best player to ever play the game of football. Despite never playing in Europe, which was far from the dominant force it is ...

SHEFFIELD - World Cup legend Pele believes England have a strong case to host the 2018 tournament. The Football Association last week announced their intention to bid for the event and Pele, whose own ...

Pele, the magical Brazilian football star who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died at the age of 82, his daughter said on Instagram ...

While the public saw one version of the Brazilian soccer legend in his three years in New York, covering the team offered an up-close look at the man. By Lawrie Mifflin Lawrie Mifflin spent the first ...

Mumbai : Celebrating the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, &PriveHD will telecast the movie Pele: Birth of a Legend on 28 May at 07.00 PM, ...

In a town in the south of the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais called Don Viçoso, there lived a young widow called Maria Rosalina. She had a baby son and loved him dearly, but he wouldn’t speak.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When, out of frailty, Pelé withdrew from lighting the cauldron at the 2016 Summer Olympics — held for the first ...

Pele turned down the chance to play alongside George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton at Manchester United to remain at his beloved Santos in 1968. In the late 60s, Pele already had two World Cups to his ...