Pele death

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."

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.

Pelé, the global soccer star that popularized the sport on an international level, died Thursday. He was 82.

In a full-circle moment for the Brazilian star, he was named honorary president of the Cosmos in 2010 with the organization aiming to field a team in Major League Soccer. He brought two state youth championships to Bauru Athletic Club juniors and participated in the booming popularity of indoor soccer, winning the first futsal competition in his region. For a period of time during his playing days, Pelé was considered the highest-paid athlete in the world. The teams he played for often traveled and played internationally to take advantage of his popularity around the world. Pelé is credited with popularizing the term “The Beautiful Game” in association with soccer, with his global popularity being a catalyst for the sport’s overall growth worldwide. For Brazil, he is the country’s joint top scorer in goals with 77 in 92 career games.

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One was the true and genuine warmth of his nature. Soccer back then offered far less protection for skilled players, and as the most destructive attacker in the world, he was the most obvious target. He arguably saved his best for last on the biggest stage of all. It was impudent, mischievous, perfect and helped clinch the title for Brazil — the only time a South American team has won a World Cup staged in Europe. A worldwide audience got its first glimpse of Pelé during the 1958 World Cup, at the age of 17. Medical officials said he died of multiple organ failure as a result of the cancer, according to the Associated Press.

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It was like his strength was at the service of the beauty of the game." But even as he championed the idea of soccer as a unifier, Pele's life intertwined with racial and political divides at home. In 2011 he said, "I think it will be, always, the beautiful game." On the day Pelé retired, he reiterated his positive message to a packed stadium, asking fans to repeat the word "love" with him three times. Even so, Black Brazilian civil rights leaders would later criticize Pelé for ignoring their calls to denounce racism in the country, Basthi said: "He bet on an earlier narrative" that his success disproved there were racial barriers. He was also a playmaker and one of the early pioneers of the bicycle kick, a leap upward at an airborne ball to rocket it backward. At the gym at Santos, he added judo and karate to workouts. He is an honorary knight of the British Empire and served as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Brazil's Minister of Sports, where he oversaw new legislation on labor rights for athletes. At the time, Brazil's economy was booming, and the team's exuberance became a symbol of the country itself. "I think we related to Pelé because of his creativity." "He walks on the field with one of those irresistible and fatal authorities. He rose from humble beginnings in rural Brazil to eternalize a powerful and creative style of play.

Pelé, the Brazilian football legend, who many regard as the greatest player of all time, has died in hospital in Sao Paulo at the age of 82.

He scored a world record 1,281 goals, playing in 1,363 games during his professional career, which began when he was just 15. We are deeply saddened by the passing of Pelé. At the time, the Secretary-General of the Summit, Maurice Strong, described him as not only the greatest footballer in the world, but “a universal man”, rooted in Brazil. He was also appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the crucial UN Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992, one of the first major global development and environment summits devoted to a more sustainable future for all. He devoted considerable time in retirement to supporting the UN and its work, both as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund [UNESCO](https://en.unesco.org/), tweeted that it was “deeply saddened” at his passing, and extended condolences to the Brazilian people, and the wider “football family”.

Brazil soccer great Pele died on Thursday aged 82 after a long battle with cancer. Following are reactions to his death from around the world:

A sad day for the world of football, for the world of sport. Today the world of football cries for the loss of O Rei. Our thoughts are with the people of Brazil and the world football family. We extend our condolences to the Brazilian people and the football family. My deepest condolences to all of Brazil, and in particular to the family of Mr. He made football the beautiful game and truly international. A mere "goodbye" to the eternal King Pele will never be enough to express the pain that embraces the whole world of football at this moment. The King of Kings has died. As I could experience myself, he was a true believer in the Olympic values and a proud carrier of the Olympic flame. Pele was one of the greatest to ever play the beautiful game. One of the greatest footballers in history has left us. And as one of the most recognizable athletes in the world, he understood the power of sports to bring people together.

How did Pele die? Here was Pele's cause of death and how he passed. Did Pele have cancer? Read about Pele's last words and what he died from.

In December 2017, Pelé was photographed in a wheelchair at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. “The only (type of) bacteria identified so far is sensitive to the antibiotics being administered,” Albert Einstein Hospital said in a statement at the time. The American Cancer Society also reports that colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and women in the United States and the second most common cause of cancer deaths for men and women combined. Before his death, Pelé was honored by fans at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Soon after the surgery, Pelé started chemotherapy treatment at Albert Einstein Hospital and underwent a second surgery for the tumor in his colon in December 2021. [ESPN Brazil](https://www.espn.com.br/futebol/artigo/_/id/11303661/pele-e-internado-e-passa-por-exames-em-sao-paulo-quimioterapia-nao-responde-e-situacao-preocupa) reported that Pelé had been admitted to Albert Einstein Hospital for “general swelling,” along with cardiac issues and concerns that his chemotherapy treatment wasn’t having the expected effect. “The king has passed,” Pelé’s agent, Joe Fraga, said in a statement at the time. “We, as always, thank you for all the love you show us here in Brazil as well as around the world! It was a penalty kick and for the first time in my whole career my legs were shaking, the whole of the Maracanã was shouting and screaming, and I remember thinking, ‘Oh, my God… “The patient is stable, and is expected to be released in the coming days,” the hospital said in a statement at the time. It was the first time I had travelled by plane, and in Sweden everything was new and different. Pelé earned the nickname O Rei—”The King” in Portuguese—after he won his first FIFA World Cup with Brazil’s national team in 1958.