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Pelé won his first major title with Santos in 1958 as the team won the Campeonato Paulista; he would finish the tournament as the top scorer, with 58 goals, [31] a record that still stands today. A year later, he would help the team earn their first victory in the Torneio Rio-São Paulo with a 3–0 over Vasco da Gama. [ 32 ]
Pelé, Pepe and Zito are the Santos players who have won the FIFA World Cup two consecutive times. Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names ...
Abedi Pele in December 2007. Ayew has participated in more FIFA organized charity matches than any other African player. Abedi Pele is a member of FIFA's Football Committee, and of the player status committees of both FIFA and CAF. That explains why the South African FA made him a Spokesperson for their 2006 World Cup bid.
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Brazilian football champions are the winners of the highest league in Brazilian football, which since 1971 is considered the national championship. In 2010, the Brazilian Football Confederation additionally recognized the winners of the Taça Brasil (1959–68) and the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1967–70) as Brazilian football champions l. It has also briefely recognized the controversial ...
The World Cup of Masters, also known as the Pelé World Cup and Mundial de Seniors, was an event that ran every two years from 1987 until 1995.The tournament was for senior (35+) players and it was under the rules of the IMFA (International Master Football Association), presided by Julio Mazzei at the time.
Maradona won the Internet-based poll by wide margins, garnering 53.6% of the votes against 18.53% for Pelé. [4] Many observers complained that the Internet nature of the poll would have meant a skewed demographic of younger fans who would have seen Maradona play, but not Pelé.
In 1999, he was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee [20] and included in the Time list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, [21] while, in 2000, he was voted the World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics [22] and was a joint winner of the FIFA ...