Did Pele die

Pelé, who was declared a national treasure in his native Brazil, achieved worldwide celebrity and helped popularize the sport in the United States.

In 2001, a company he had helped found a decade earlier, Pelé Sports and Marketing, was accused of taking enormous loans to stage a charity game for Unicef and then not repaying the money when the game failed to happen. He often referred to Pelé in the third person. In a video recorded for the occasion, Pelé said, “It’s a great joy to pass through this world and be able to leave, for future generations, some memories, and to leave a legacy for my country.” The Cosmos moved to Giants Stadium in Pelé’s final season, 1977, and there, in the Meadowlands, reached the pinnacle of their — and the league’s — popularity. Most probably, he wrote, the nickname was a reference to a player on his father’s team whom he had admired and wanted to emulate as a boy. When Pelé was about to retire from Santos in the early 1970s, Henry A. As it bounced, he turned — so quickly that the ball was barely a foot off the ground — and struck it into the net. One of Pelé’s earliest memories was of seeing his father, while listening to the radio, cry when Brazil lost to Uruguay, 2-1, in the deciding match of the 1950 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. “I wish he had gone on playing forever,” Clive Toye, a former president and general manager of the Cosmos, wrote in a 2006 memoir. Pelé also played on the Brazilian teams that won in 1962 and 1970. Having come out of retirement at 34, he spent three seasons with the Cosmos on a crusade to popularize soccer in the United States. He helped create and promote what he later called “o jogo bonito” — the beautiful game — a style that valued clever ball control, inventive pinpoint passing and a voracious appetite for attacking.

Pele, who led his national team to an unprecedented three World Cup titles, had been hospitalized since late November with cancer.

"The king of football has left us but his legacy will never be forgotten. I saw Pele give a show," said Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president-elect of Brazil. "Today, I insist on being involved in good causes, both with NGO's, Public institutions and my sponsors," he posted. By 16, he was part of Brazil's national team, and in 1958 he made his World Cup debut at age 17. He won two more World Cups with Brazil, in 1962 and 1970. In September 2021, he had surgery to remove a tumor from his colon.

Pelé, who rose from a Brazilian slum to become the world's greatest soccer player, dies at 82.

Pele earned nearly $1 million in his final season in Brazil in 1974 — the equivalent of more than $6.3 million today — and donated it all to children’s charities. to play host to the 1994 World Cup, still the most financially successful and best-attended soccer tournament in history. He was the personal guest of at least three popes, six emperors, eight presidents, 15 kings and more than four dozen other heads of state. Pelé was also part of championship teams in 1962 and 1970, making him the only person in history to win three World Cups. But a series of bad investments left him near financial ruin a couple of years later, so Pelé returned to soccer, signing a three-year, $4.5-million contract with the New York Cosmos of the struggling North American Soccer League. He was the eldest of three children born to Celeste Arantes and Joao Ramos do Nascimento, a minor league soccer player whose career was cut short by a knee injury. The boast to his father wasn’t the only one Pelé’s talent made good on. Two years later he would become the youngest man to play — and score — in a World Cup. The children wore secondhand clothes, often went without shoes and sometimes had no more to eat than one daily meal of bread and a slice of banana. 21, a date Pelé insisted was incorrect — in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, his name inspired by the inventor Thomas Edison. In time the taunt would become the most famous name in sports. Edson is the person who has the feelings, who has the family, who works hard.

Brazilian soccer star Pelé died Thursday at the age of 82 after battling colon cancer. He is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player of all time.

The world was officially introduced to the phenom at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Brazil crashed out in the first round of the 1966 World Cup in England, having only played three matches. [WORLD CUP 2022: USA’S TITLE DREAMS END IN LOSS TO NETHERLANDS](https://www.foxnews.com/sports/world-cup-2022-usa-title-dreams-end-loss-netherlands) He retired with a total of 1,281 goals in 1,363 games. Nevertheless, Pelé went on to play lucrative exhibition matches with teams around the world. But you don’t need to introduce yourself, because everyone knows who Pelé is." The teenager was signed and immediately began making an impact. He was admitted into the hospital in late November, with his daughter saying it was to regulate his medication. He played on several amateur teams, even leading the local Bauru Athletic Club juniors team to two Sao Paulo state youth championships. He was nicknamed "Dico" by his family. Its origin is unclear, with Pelé himself saying that he didn’t know how it started. He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison, though his parents decided to remove the "I" and call him Edson.