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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]
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.
FILE - Brazil's soccer legend Pele attends the opening of an exhibit about his life titled King's Marks, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 25, 2008. Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record ...
By the end of his 21-year professional career, Pelé had become an international icon, perhaps sport’s first truly global superstar. Pelé, transcendent soccer superstar and Brazilian ...
A new Cosmos team, formed in 2010, [4] is scheduled to begin play in the new second-tier North American Soccer League (contested since 2011) during the 2013 season. [5] [6] All players who played at least one league match for the Cosmos are given below. A total of 155 outfield players did so, along with 17 goalkeepers, giving a total of 172.
[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.
The Brazilian superstar forward possessed a penchant for spectacular scoring and anticipating his opponents’ movement on the field — all The post Soccer legend Pelé has died at 82 appeared ...
Brazilian soccer legend Pelé died on Thursday after a lengthy battle with colon cancer. He was 82.Pelé's family confirmed his death with a message on social media in both English and Portuguese.