Bocaina de Minas, BRAZIL — Down a dirt road in the mountains of Minas Gerais, Pelé's home state, Jorge Tavares received the news of the star's death from a 4 a.m. newscast. As a boy, Tavares ...

Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, who won a record three World Cup titles and helped popularize the sport in the United States in the 1970s, dies at 82.

Perhaps the greatest player soccer has ever seen, Pele was beloved around the world -- including by legions of admiring ladies. He once said he had no idea how many children he fathered.

Early Success. Pelé sprang into the international limelight at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, a slight 17-year-old who as a boy had played soccer barefoot on the streets of his impoverished ...

Pelé’s Immortal Record: Three World Cups Other all-time greats have joined him in soccer’s pantheon. But his performances on the game’s brightest stage set him apart.

The first episode of 'Academies – Santos', a free-to-watch FIFA+ documentary featuring Pele, has been released. We pay tribute to 'The King' with stories, stats, quotes and videos.

The boy, then known as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, liked playing in goal and whenever he made a save, he would call out his hero’s name. Except that he mangled the name, changing the B to a P ...

Pelé was, in a nutshell, both divine and intensely human. From Edson Arantes do Nascimento to Pelé. The boy who’d become king was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on Oct. 23, 1940, in Tres ...

Three children were born from his first marriage in 1966: two girls and a boy. During this period, Pelé also had a daughter from an extramarital affair in 1968, which he recognized in 2002. He ...

Pelé!’ all over the world,” the boy once lamented long after he had become a man. “But no one remembers Edson. Edson is the person who has the feelings, who has the family, who works hard.

Singer Burna Boy honored the later soccer star on social media, saying, “RIP Pele. A man with a strong legacy that will be remembered FOREVER. Legends Never Die they are always Remembered in the ...