Peter: Possibly... but seeing Pele playing for Santos and beating them was special - and unexpected. Liverpool playing their youngsters has taken the edge of a superb victory. A match which tbh ...

Pele was the first to play on three World Cup winners ... In 1974, the player nicknamed the Black Pearl played his last game for Santos. He had been planning on retirement but a bad business ...

Pelé died last week at age 82 and was laid to rest in Santos, the city where he became famous after moving there at age 15 to play for Santos FC. The funeral Mass was held at the team’s Vila ...

Pele and his Santos team-mates have often claimed they were behind a ceasefire struck during Nigeria's brutal civil war in 1969 but is the story more fiction than fact?

The burial began around 2 pm local time after the hearse (a fire engine actually) drove through the streets of Santos for about three and a half hours. At the Memorial, Pelé's body will remain in ...

Pele named Arsenal as the English team he'd most liked to have signed for if he were ever to come to the UK to play his ...

Santos won both games but had to come back. And Pelé was the protagonist both times. He went to play the Intercontinental Cup against Milan by Gianni Rivera, Giovanni Trappatoni, Cesare Maldini ...

where Pelé spent most of his playing career, according to a statement from the club. A fire department vehicle will serve as a hearse to parade Pele through the streets of Santos towards Vila ...

He'd go on to score 643 goals over 19 years in a golden era for Santos ... 4-1 in the final. Pele scored Brazil's opening goal in the final in the 18th minute. Pele ended his playing days at ...