Brazil’s Pele leaps and scores past Venezuela goalkeeper Fabrizio Fasano during a 1969 match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP file photo Following five days of what The Star called “intensive ...
Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the ...
Pelé, who was declared a national treasure in his native Brazil, achieved worldwide celebrity and helped popularize the sport in the United States. By Lawrie Mifflin Pelé, one of soccer’s greatest ...