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.

When it was Pele's turn to speak, he talked of how he hated the name Pele as a boy and was once suspended after fighting a group of kids who refused to call him Edson. Yet again, everyone laughed.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

And he was like, ‘these are my boys.’ He was the opposite of a prima donna.” “I had always known Pele to be the greatest soccer player in the world,” said Werner Roth, the Cosmos captain.

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 ...