pele death

FIFA President Gianni Infantino gives his condolences to Marcia Aoki, the widow of Brazilian soccer great Pele, during the wake at Vila Belmiro stadium in Santos, Brazil. | Photo Credit: AP FIFA will ask all the world’s countries to name a…

By AFP SANTOS: An emotional Brazil began paying its final respects Monday to football legend Pele with a wake at the stadium where he first took the world's breath away with his dazzling skill. Hundreds of fans lined…

Brazil’s late football star Pele bicycle kicks a ball during a game at unknown location on September 1968. File | Photo Credit: AP Some of Brazilian soccer legend Pele's former team mates on Friday remembered him as the greatest player of…

Neymar led football’s emotional tributes to Pele after the Brazil legend’s death on Thursday as the Paris Saint Germain star said his iconic compatriot had transformed the sport “into an art”.Pele passed away aged 82 after suffering…

Tributes poured in from across Brazil and beyond Friday for football legend Pele, as the country held three days of mourning for the player widely regarded as the greatest of all time after his death at age 82.Emotional Brazilians flocked…

By AFP PARIS: His face appeared on televisions around the world and dominated the homepages of news outlets everywhere as global media bowed to the late, great Pele, the undisputed "King" of football. News…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Brazilian football legend Pele after the latter died aged 82. Pele, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died Thursday after a long battle with cancer. A number of eminent…

By PTI NEW DELHI: "It's an honour for me to celebrate the world's greatest sport with the children of India," these words from Pele seven years ago will ring forever in the ears of football fans in Delhi. It was the…

By AFP LONDON: Neymar led football's emotional tributes to Pele after the Brazil legend's death on Thursday as the Paris Saint Germain star said his iconic compatriot had transformed the sport "into an art". Pele…

Pele, the planet’s most famous footballer, the sport’s first superstar and the only player with three World Cup titles, died at the age of 82 on Thursday.Pele’s death comes 51 years after he last kicked a ball for Brazil (July 18, 1971).…