Pele has died at the age of 82. The Brazilian was arguably the greatest player to grace the World Cup finals, winning football’s biggest prize three times. Here, the PA news agency takes a ...

Tostao discusses almost missing out Mexico 1970, playing the latter stages of the final in tears and why Pele is the greatest of all time. “I had been involved in countless retinal detachment ...

Long before — long, long before — the advent of minute-to-minute media that spanned continents, which developed some measure of global information dialect, which rinsed sports through its wash cycle, ...

The best gauge of what Pelé meant to soccer is that he was synonymous with excellence even before people saw him play. By Rory Smith Of all the myriad things Pelé did — the thousand-plus goals he ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Soccer great Pelé did not attend a ceremony Thursday to unveil a statue of him representing Brazil's historic 1970 World Cup winning team. The Brazilian has suffered with mobility ...

The incomparable Pele passed away on 29 December 2022. In this previous interview with FIFA, he discusses Sweden 1958 and Mexico 1970. ’Maracanazo’ devastated Brazil. Yet it bore a promise that would ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's 1970 World Cup winners contained more gifted individuals than Spain's current all-conquering national side, the Brazilian side's greatest player Pele said on Wednesday.

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 century, died Thursday. He was 82. The ...