News

Pelé was born on Oct. 23, 1940, his father was a professional soccer player in their native Brazil. Pelé — who was given his nickname by childhood friends because of the way he mispronounced ...
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. “Everything that we are, is thanks to you,” his daughter Kely ...
Pelé, one of soccer’s greatest players and a transformative figure in 20th-century sports who achieved a level of global celebrity few athletes have known, died on Thursday in São Paulo.
Pelé, who did not show up for Machado’s funeral in 2006, later told a Brazilian reporter that he had decided not to pursue a relationship with Machado because people close to her had approached ...
Suleiman Al-Obeid, nicknamed the “Palestinian Pelé”, was shot dead by Israeli forces on Wednesday while waiting near an aid ...
Pelé added a third layer: his nickname, his trademark, became a synonym not for greatness or even for excellence but for an unimpeachable, scarcely attainable form of perfection.
Displaced Palestinian family of the late soccer player Suleiman al-Obeid, known as the "Palestinian Pelé", sat in their tent ...
Liverpool forward and Egyptian national team superstar Mohamed Salah reposted a tweet from the Union of European Football ...