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After the 1974 season (his 19th with Santos), Pelé retired from Brazilian club football although he continued to occasionally play for Santos in official competitive matches. A year later, he came out of semi-retirement to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL) for the 1975 season. [53]
Pelé is the only player to have his number retired when the team put his #10 out of circulation in 1977 Franz Beckenbauer with Argentine Diego Maradona in 1980 Giorgio Chinaglia, Cosmos' all-time leading scorer Charlie Aitken, seen in 2006 Ron Atanasio, pictured in 2010 with Cosmos memorabilia Carlos Alberto Torres had two tenures on the Cosmos, 1977–80, and 1982 Mordechai Spiegler, right ...
The New York Cosmos (simply the Cosmos in 1977–1978) were an American professional soccer club based in New York City and its suburbs. The team played home games in three stadiums around New York, including Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, before moving in 1977 to Giants Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the club remained for the rest of its history.
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[b] [1] He remained Brazil's top goalscorer for over 60 years, before being surpassed by Neymar in 2023. [2] [5] Pelé made his debut for Brazil in a 2–1 defeat against Argentina on 7 July 1957. [6] In that same match, he scored his first international goal aged 16 years and eight months, and remains Brazil's youngest ever goalscorer.