Football: King Pele bowed out at the age of 82
Brazilian footballer Pelé broke his pipe on December 29, 2022 following a failure of multiple organs at the age of 82. The Albert Einstein Hospital confirmed the sad news at 3:27 p.m. local time.
Recall that in September 2021, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, his real name underwent an operation to remove a cancerous tumor in the colon. At the end of November, King Pele was admitted to hospital for a respiratory infection following a covid-19 contamination, as well as for a reassessment of his cancer treatment.
Pelé is considered the king of football by several international rankings as well as by his many admirers. Becoming the youngest world champion in history, he is also the only one to have won the competition three times: 1958 against Sweden (5-2), 1962 against Czechoslovakia (3-1) and 1970 against Italy (4-1). The World Cup, Pelé’s competition where he gained his worldwide notoriety.Brazil of which he is still the top scorer of the selection with 77 goals in 92 caps, he also shone at club level with Santos. Author of 643 goals in 660 matches with the Brazilian club between 1956 and 1974, he won 6 Brazilian Championships (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1968) as well as two Copa Libertadores (1961 and 1962). He then left for two years in the United States to defend the colors of the New York Cosmos, he retired from sport at the age of 37.During his career, he claimed to have scored 1301 goals in all competitions taking into account regional cups and friendly matches since Santos frequently made long tours in Europe. After hanging up his boots, Pelé has always been linked to football, but he has also carried out important humanitarian actions.also becoming a UNICEF ambassador. He also became Brazilian Minister of Sports between 1995 and 1999, and took advantage of his image to devote himself to causes that were dear to him.
According to Johan Cruyff’s exact formula, he was above all the only footballer to go beyond the bounds of logic. Fluent but endowed with a supernatural technique of both feet and head, barely higher than 1.70 meters, but equipped with a prodigious vertical relaxation and strong of a stunning reading of the game, Pelé, before being a divinity, was a player, in the literal sense, playful.
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