Pelé, the Brazilian soccer star who led his country’s national team to that World Cup victory in 1956 and who, in the 1960s and 70s, rivaled Muhammad Ali as the world’s most popular and recognizable athlete, died Friday (AEDT) at a Sao Paulo hospital.
He was 82, and had been in poor health for the last several years as he battled cancer and what the hospital described this week as “kidney and cardiac dysfunctions.
Football fans worldwide are mourning the soccer legend and Erling Haaland is one of them as he took to Twitter to tell the world everything you see any player doing, Pele did it first. Check the post below.
Pele won three World Cup tournaments with Brazil and 10 league titles with Santos, his club team, and the 1977 North American Soccer League championship with the New York Cosmos. Having come out of retirement at 34, he spent three seasons with the Cosmos on a crusade to popularize soccer in the United States.
