As is the case with football fans across Brazil, supporters of Santos FC view their club as something of a second religion.

In a club career that began in 1956 for a then 16-year-old kid from Tres Coracoes, Brazil, ended in 1974 with Pelé appearing in just shy of 600 games in a Santos uniform and scoring 569 goals ...

The new president of Brazil's Santos soccer club says no player will wear the team's number 10 shirt made globally famous by the late Pelé as long as the team plays in the country's second division.

Santos are the Brazilian club that gave the world Pele and Neymar among other stars. So how did it come to this?

Santos was founded by the Portuguese in January 1546. It hosts Latin America 's biggest port, which feeds the Sao Paulo area and exports the country's agricultural commodities to the planet.

A public viewing of Pelé's casket was held in the coastal city of Santos, where the king of soccer spent much of his career, and where his loss has been felt most deeply.

In Santos’ European tour that year, Santos routed Inter Milan 7-1 with four goals by Pelé, and beat Barcelona 5-1 with Pele scoring two goals.

Santos had won trophies before Pele signed, but his arrival prompted a long and sensational run of victories that over little more than a decade turned the medium-sized Brazilian club into one of ...

Giant banners that read in Portuguese: "Long live King Pele, 82 years", are displayed in the stands of the Vila Belmiro stadium, home of the Santos soccer club, where Pele's funeral will take ...