The striker scored twice in the final against the hosts Sweden, winning the first of three World Cups. Italy's Giovanni Trapattoni battles for the ball with Pele during an international friendly ...

“As FIFA, we will pay a tribute to the ‘King’ and we ask the whole world to observe a minute of silence.” Another fan and friend in line was Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes.

Pele, who died in 2022, was 17 years and 249 days old when he played in the 1958 World Cup final for Brazil, scoring twice in ...

He is now the youngest player ever to play in a major international final, breaking a record set by Pele in the 1958 World Cup final. It is not the first record that the Barcelona youngster has ...

Pele feels Steven Gerrard has been the world's best player over the past five years. Brazilian legend Pele feels Steven Gerrard has been the world's best player over the past five years.

Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, congratulated Argentina's Lionel Messi on winning the World Cup and ... daughter explained. Pele had a colon tumor ...

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino stressed that Pelé had “the good fortune to do something that very few people in the world can do ...