Pele

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.

“If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best,” he told The Talks online magazine. The world first got a glimpse of Pelé’s dazzling ability in 1958, when he made his World Cup debut aged 17. The tournament capped Pelé’s World Cup career but not his time in the spotlight. He’s the greatest player of all time, and by some distance, I might add.” “When we won the World Cup, everybody knew about Brazil,” he told CNN’s Don Riddell in 2016. He gave a voice to the poor, to black people and especially: He gave visibility to Brazil. As a teenager, Pelé left home and began training with Santos, scoring his first goal for the club side before his 16th birthday. He once wrote in the British newspaper Pelé’s wake will be held at Vila Belmiro, the headquarters of the Santos FC in São Paulo state, a spokesperson told CNN. [on Twitter](https://mobile.twitter.com/TheGeoffHurst/status/1608540805211516929) of his memories of Pelé, calling the late star “without doubt the best footballer I ever played against (with Bobby Moore being the best footballer I ever played alongside). Pelé was admitted to a hospital in São Paulo in late November for a respiratory infection and for complications related to colon cancer. He died on Thursday from multiple organ failure due to the progression of colon cancer, according to a statement from Albert Einstein Hospital.

Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, a three-time World Cup champion who's largely considered to be one of the best players ever, has died.

The game was televised on ABC's "Wide World of Sports." Gave voice to the poor, blacks and mostly gave visibility to Brazil...He's gone, but his magic remains." "Pelé had a magnetic presence and, when you were with him, the rest of the world stopped," Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, said in a statement Thursday. "An inspiration to so many millions, a reference yesterday, today and forever. Rest in peace, O Rei." Pelé had been in and out of the hospital over the past year as he fought colon cancer. The Cosmos was the only club besides Santos that Pelé ever played for. "He turned football into art, into entertainment. Pelé won two additional World Cup titles -- in 1962 and 1970. He scored an astounding 618 goals in 636 games with Santos and won six Brazilian league titles. He scored 77 goals in 92 international appearances. Rest in peace."

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He was effectively Brazil’s ambassador to the entire world, a man who moved in the company of He was finally able to capitalize on that fame when he moved to the United States in 1975: His three-year contract with New York Cosmos was worth $6 million, the equivalent of more than $34 million today. Brazil’s confidence was sky high then, and in Pelé the nation had found “O Rei,” its king, a nickname that would be attached to Pelé until his last breath. Even as he remained tied to Santos, though, Pelé’s fame was dovetailing with the start of modern sports sponsorship. With Pelé in its ranks, it was lured to Europe for monthslong tours, where it took on — He was nearing 30 as the 1970 tournament neared, and he had said he had enough. Yet his country, and its military leaders, wanted him to go, and he finally buckled to the pressure and traveled to Mexico with a team few at home believed could win the title. It is hard to overstate the meaning of the connection between the individual and the country, a link that endured at his death almost as strongly as it did in Pelé’s heyday, when he was among the most famous people in the world. His popularity also lifted him above the fray of domestic issues, soccer royalty in a nation still finding its way. That defeat, Rodrigues wrote, exemplified a collective inferiority complex Brazil saw in itself, not just in soccer but in its relationship with the rest of the world. Brazil’s canary yellow shirts and Pelé’s dazzling play became synonymous with the country itself, its calling cards to the world. For a country still looking to make its mark in the postwar years, Pelé’s arrival signaled Brazil’s coming-of-age.

¿De qué murió Pelé? FILE - Soccer star Pele, of the New York Cosmos,. La estrella del futbol Pelé, del Cosmos de Nueva ...

Pelé, la leyenda del fútbol que más títulos mundiales ha ganado, falleció el jueves en Sao Paulo, a la edad de 82 años. Pelé estaba recibiendo quimioterapia tras la extirpación de un tumor de colon en septiembre de 2021. “La inspiración y el amor han marcado el viaje del Rey Pelé, que ha fallecido hoy en paz.

El apodo que lo acompaña desde los 6 años. El que dejó atrás el Dico de su casa y el Gasolina de Santos. Pelé, tan simple como eso. El sobrenombre con el ...

Se fue Pelé, su fallecimiento pegó duro en el ambiente del fútbol, pero su historia perdurará al paso del tiempo. El que dejó atrás el Dico de su casa y el Gasolina de Santos. Fue el inicio de la historia, una historia plagada de gloria. Es cierto que con el paso del tiempo aparecieron otros nombres que rayaron a su altura: Maradona y Messi son claros ejemplos. Pero tanta fue la presión que finalmente aceptó. El apodo que lo acompaña desde los 6 años.

Condujo a Brasil a la elite futbolística y se convirtió en un embajador global de su deporte a lo largo de una trayectoria que comenzó en las calles del estado ...

Con un cabezazo, Pelé marcó aquel gol de la final en su último partido mundialista. Aunque tenía 34 años y había dejado atrás su época de mayores facultades, dio una prominencia fugaz al fútbol en Estados Unidos. El Mundial de Inglaterra 1966, ganado por los dueños de casa, fue amargo para Pelé. En su niñez, lustraba zapatos para comprar su modesta indumentaria de fútbol. “Él ha sido clave para el orgullo de la gente negra en Brasil, pero jamás quiso ser un abanderado”. Después de su retiro del fútbol, Pelé incursionó en muchas actividades. “O Rei” saltó a la fama a los 17 años, durante el Mundial de 1958 realizado en Suecia. En sus últimos años, se le solía ver en silla de ruedas. Una lesión lo limitó a jugar sólo dos partidos en el Mundial de 1962 en Chile, donde Brasil refrendó su cetro. Pelé tuvo dos hijas fuera del matrimonio. “Usted, en cambio, no necesita presentarse, porque todos sabemos quién es Pelé”. Su gracia, virtudes atléticas y habilidad increíble hipnotizaron a seguidores y rivales por igual.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento murió a los 82 años de edad; sigue minuto a minuto la cobertura. | Deportes Futbol | TUDN Univision.

[muerte de Pelé](https://www.tudn.com/futbol/muere-pele-en-vivo-ultimas-noticias-reacciones-del-fallecimiento-de-orei) conmocionó al mundo entero, por lo que las muestras de apoyo a la familia y los recuerdos que dejó Pelé en el futbol mexicano no se han hecho esperar. Kely do Nascimiento confirmó la muerte de su padre, Pelé, en una publicación en Instagram. El número de goles más presumido es de mil 284 goles, de los cuales FIFA contabiliza 757 en partidos oficiales. Además, entendió el poder de los deportes para unir a la gente. Yo diría que antes de Pelé el fútbol era solo un deporte. La iluminación continuará a lo largo de toda la tarde y noche del jueves. El Club Santos FC informó que el velorio se realizará en su estadio, en Vila Belmiro. Luego vino el juego más grande del Tricolor en el Maracaná un 31 de octubre, amistoso que ganó 2-1 con goles de Isidoro Díaz (18’) y ‘Chalo’ Fragoso (63’). El exfutbolista jugó en la década de los años 90 para Santos, donde su padre desarrolló toda su carrera profesional en Brasil. Jairzinho puso el primero a los cuatro minutos, Edson Arantes al 26 incrementó la ventaja, pero Enrique Borja hizo el descuento (41’). El primero fue de Mario ‘Lobo’ Zagallo al 56 de juego. "Tuve el honor de jugar al lado de Pelé, y contra él también.

Pelé was one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century. He won a record three World Cups with Brazil and was the standard-bearer of "the ...

He changed his mind and was rejuvenated in the 1970 World Cup. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 league title and scored 64 goals in three seasons. 1, 1977, in an exhibition between the Cosmos and Santos before a crowd in New Jersey of some 77,000. Pelé likened the save — one of the best in World Cup history — to a “salmon climbing up a waterfall.” Later, he scored the opening goal in the final against Italy, his last World Cup match. He went to the 1958 World Cup as a reserve but became a key player for his country’s championship team. Brazil was knocked out in the group stage and Pelé, angry at the rough treatment, swore it was his last World Cup. He scored in the final and set up Carlos Alberto with a nonchalant pass for the last goal in a 4-1 victory over Italy. When he visited Washington to help popularize the game in North America, it was the U.S. Despite his youth and 5-foot-8 frame, he scored against grown men with the same ease he displayed against friends back home. Pelé’s fame was such that in 1967 factions of a civil war in Nigeria agreed to a brief cease-fire so he could play an exhibition match in the country. “He is key for Black people’s pride in Brazil, but never wanted to be a flagbearer.” He was carried off the field on teammates’ shoulders after scoring two goals in Brazil’s 5-2 victory over the host country in the final.

Pele is hoisted on the shoulders of his teammates after Brazil won the World Cup final. Pelé in 1970, when he became the only man to win three World Cups.Credit ...

He had already done everything there was to do: He had scored a thousand goals; he had broken countless records; he had decorated the game with endless moments of wonder. He had retained the World Cup in 1962 but been injured for the tournament’s decisive matches. It was enough to make opponents relish facing him and to draw fans, thousands upon thousands of them, to his games, meaningless or not. It was, by the standards of those who can breathe in the rarefied air of a World Cup final, a pass that was easy. A far better gauge of Pelé’s legacy would be not those bald, raw numbers but something far less tangible: the scope and the extent of his fame. To do so, though, strips away process for raw output; it reduces an athlete who defined not only a whole class of player — before Pelé, as Neymar said, “10 was just a number” — but an entire soccer culture to nothing but a productive goal scorer. He had already racked up more than a thousand games, condemned to partake in an endless parade of exhibitions as his club, Santos, sought to monetize his fame and pay his salary. Before that, for the vast majority of fans — especially outside Brazil — Pelé had only existed in black-and-white footage. As the journalist Andrew Downie has observed, it is noteworthy how many of the most lasting images of Pelé come from that World Cup. And yet, other than perhaps his poise and arguably his vision, the pass does not display any of the traits that made Pelé Pelé. Then he plays the pass, almost with a shrug, gently guiding the ball to the exact spot where Carlos Alberto requires it to be so that he can meet it, at full speed, without breaking stride. It was not a pass that he made look easy.

Pele was a footballing legend the world over, but for people in Brazil he was so much more.

Again, many felt that was a weak position given his huge influence - and of course the turbulent politics that he lived through - including a dictatorship. Pele was also known to keep his head down when it came to politics. In fact, president Janio Quadros in 1961 even declared him a national treasure, which meant for years he couldn't be "exported" to play for clubs abroad, such was his hero status and importance for national pride. In a country where racism and classism are still so dominant, Pele, a black footballer from a poor background, was an incredible success story. When news eventually came of his passing, it was still a big moment. This is a moment that Brazilians had been expecting for some time but also dreading.

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...

He changed his mind and was rejuvenated in the 1970 World Cup. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 league title and scored 64 goals in three seasons. 1, 1977, in an exhibition between the Cosmos and Santos before a crowd in New Jersey of some 77,000. Pelé likened the save — one of the best in World Cup history — to a “salmon climbing up a waterfall.” Later, he scored the opening goal in the final against Italy, his last World Cup match. He went to the 1958 World Cup as a reserve but became a key player for his country’s championship team. Brazil was knocked out in the group stage and Pelé, angry at the rough treatment, swore it was his last World Cup. He scored in the final and set up Carlos Alberto with a nonchalant pass for the last goal in a 4-1 victory over Italy. When he visited Washington to help popularize the game in North America, it was the U.S. Despite his youth and 5-foot-8 frame, he scored against grown men with the same ease he displayed against friends back home. Pelé’s fame was such that in 1967 factions of a civil war in Nigeria agreed to a brief cease-fire so he could play an exhibition match in the country. “He is key for Black people’s pride in Brazil, but never wanted to be a flagbearer.” He was carried off the field on teammates’ shoulders after scoring two goals in Brazil’s 5-2 victory over the host country in the final.