Pele
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Neymar beats Pele’s record to become Brazil’s all-time top scorer
Sep 10, 2023The goal Neymar scored against Bolivia on Friday, which brought him to 78 goals overall, overtook Pele to become Brazil’s all-time leading scorer. The forward, who was playing in his 125th match for Brazil, had a... -
Brazil says final farewell to ‘King’ Pele
Jan 3, 2023Tuesday, as Brazil bid its ultimate farewell to football hero Pele, widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva presided over the tributes. In the city of Santos in... -
Final farewell for Pele, Brazil’s football ‘King’
Jan 2, 2023Brazilians bid a final farewell this week to football giant Pele, starting Monday with a 24-hour public wake at the stadium of his long-time team, Santos. The oceanside home of the team nicknamed “Peixe” — “fish”... -
Brazilian soccer legend Pele dies at 82
Dec 30, 2022Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82. Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital,... -
Pele’s family gather at his hospital bedside on Christmas Eve
Dec 25, 2022According to a social media post by his daughter, the great Pele’s family paid him a visit on Saturday at the hospital in Sao Paulo where he is battling cancer that is progressing as well as... -
Lionel Messi breaks Brazil legend Pele’s South American men’s goals record
Sep 10, 2021Lionel Messi has set a new South American men’s record by scoring his 79th international goal for Argentina, surpassing Brazil icon Pele. Messi scored all three goals in Argentina’s 3-0 victory against Bolivia in a World... -
Pele congratulates hat-trick hero Ronaldo for breaking record
Mar 15, 2021Pele on Sunday congratulated Cristiano Ronaldo for ‘breaking his record’ of goals scored in official matches. Portuguese star Ronaldo hit a hat-trick for Juventus in a 3-1 Serie A win over Cagliari to bring his total... -
Pele, Maradona join applause for ‘humanity’s heroes’
Apr 19, 2020Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo were among 50 global football icons to pay tribute to workers striving to combat the coronavirus pandemic in a video posted by FIFA on Saturday. The video, which lasts almost one-and-a-half minutes,... -
‘You can reach 1,000 goals’, Pele tells Mbappe
Apr 3, 2019Football legend Pele told Kylian Mbappe on Tuesday that he believes the French World Cup winner can emulate his own achievement of scoring 1,000 career goals. The 78-year-old Brazilian claims to have netted over 1,000 goals... -
Mbappe ‘happy’ but says Pele ‘on another level’
Jul 1, 2018Teenage star Kylian Mbappe played down comparisons with Brazil legend Pele after stealing the show in a 4-3 victory for France that sent Argentina crashing out of the World Cup. Billed as Lionel Messi’s chance to...
