It has been announced that Brazilian icon Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, has passed away at the age of 82, leaving the football world in sadness.
In order to continue his fight against colon cancer, Pele was admitted to the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo at the end of November.
Doctors had previously in December stated that the sickness was advancing, which raised serious concerns about the three-time World Cup winner’s condition.
The legend of football had died, it was confirmed on Thursday.
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Marcia Aoki, Pele’s third wife, and his seven kids are still living.
Pele was a prolific goal scorer during his playing career and is regarded by many as one of the greatest footballers of all time, if not the best. Since winning the first of his three World Cups at the age of 17 in the 1958 tournament in Sweden, he has been admired in his native Brazil.
Pele contributed six goals to the competition, including a hat-trick against France in the semifinal and a brace against Sweden in the championship game.
Pele and Brazil would go on to win the 1962 World Cup in Chile despite having to miss most of the competition due to injuries.
Pele experienced World Cup triumph once more with the mighty Brazil team that won the championship in Mexico in 1070.
Pele spent the most of his club career with Santos in Brazil, making his debut for the coastal club in the state of Sao Paulo in 1956 at the age of 15.
In 1974, he would depart the squad having won the Brazilian league six times and the continental and global championships twice.
Famous for his goal-scoring prowess, Pele left the Brazilian national team in 1971 with 77 goals in 92 games, a mark that Neymar has only recently surpassed.
In 1977, Pele retired from club play at the New York Cosmos.
In his post-playing days, Pele was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1994 and a UN ambassador for ecology and the environment in 1992.
Pele earned an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 1997, serving as yet more indication of his widespread fame.
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