Pelé, born on October 23, 1940, in Brazil, is revered as one of the greatest football players in history, having gained global fame by scoring six goals in the 1958 World Cup. He played for Santos FC and the Brazilian national team, retiring with a record of 1,281 goals in 1,363 games. Beyond his athletic achievements, Pelé has received numerous accolades and has served in various humanitarian and ambassadorial roles.

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4. ALSO LISTED IN Football Players
ALSO KNOWN AS : Edson Arantes do Nascimento
NATIONALITY : Brazilian
RELIGION : Roman Catholic
BORN ON : 23 October 1940 AD
ZODIAC SIGN : Libra Libra Men
BORN IN : Tres Coracoes, Brazil
FATHER : Dondinho
MOTHER : Dona Celeste Arantes
SPOUSES : Assíria Lemos Seixas (m. 1994–2008),
Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi (m. 1966–1982)
CHILDREN : Edson Cholbi Nascimento, Sandra
Regina Arantes do Nascimento, Joshua Nascimento,
Kelly Cristina Nascimento, Jennifer Nascimento,
Celeste Nascimento, Flávia Christina Kurtz
Nascimento
NET WORTH : $100 million
AWARDS: 1995 - Brazil's Gold Medal for outstanding
services to the sport

5. Pele is widely
regarded as one of
the greatest football
players of all the
time.
Born on October
23, 1940, in Três
Corações, Brazil,
soccer legend Pelé
became a superstar
with his
performance in the
1958 World Cup.

6. He is the first child of João Ramos and Dona
Celeste. Named after Thomas Edison and
nicknamed "Dico," Pelé moved with his family to
the city of Bauru as a young boy.
João Ramos, better known as "Dondinho,"
struggled to earn a living as a soccer player, and
Pelé grew up in poverty. Still, he developed a latent
talent for soccer by kicking a rolled-up sock stuffed
with rags around the streets of Bauru. The origin of
the "Pelé" nickname is unclear, though he recalled
despising it when his friends first referred to him
that way.
Pelé joined a youth squad coached by Waldemar de
Brito, a former member of the Brazilian national
soccer team. De Brito eventually convinced Pelé's
family to let him leave home and try out for the
Santos professional soccer club when he was 15.

7. Pelé signed with
Santos and
immediately started
practicing with the
team's regulars. He
scored the first
professional goal of
his career before he
turned 16, led the
league in goals in his
first full season and
was recruited to play
for the Brazilian
national team.

8. The world was
officially
introduced to
Pelé in the 1958
World Cup in
Sweden.
Displaying
remarkable
speed,
athleticism and
field vision, the
17-year-old
erupted to score
three goals in a
5-2 semifinal win
over France,
then netted two
more in the
finals, a 5-2 win
over the host
country.

9. The young superstar
received huge offers to
play for European
clubs, and Brazilian
President Jânio
Quadros eventually
had Pelé declared a
national treasure,
making it legally
difficult for him to play
in another country.
Regardless, Santos
club ownership
ensured its star
attraction was well paid
by scheduling lucrative
exhibition matches
with teams around the
world.

10. Pelé aggravated a injury two games into the 1962 World Cup
in Chile, sitting out the final rounds while Brazil went on to
claim its second straight title. Four years later, in England, a
series of brutal attacks by opposing defenders again forced
him to the sidelines with leg injuries, and Brazil was bounced
from the World Cup after one round.

11. The 1970 World
Cup in Mexico
marked a
triumphant
return to glory
for Pelé and
Brazil. Pelé
scored four
goals in the
tournament,
including one
in the final to
give Brazil a 4-
1 victory over
Italy.

12. Pelé announced his
retirement from soccer in
1974, but he was lured back
to the field the following
year to play for the New
York Cosmos in the North
American Soccer League,
and temporarily helped
make the NASL a big
attraction. He played his
final game in an exhibition
between New York and
Santos in October 1977,
competing for both sides,
and retired with a total of
1,281 goals in 1,363 games.

13. In 1978, Pelé was
awarded the
International Peace
Award for his work
with UNICEF. He has
also served as Brazil's
Extraordinary Minister
for Sport and a United
Nations ambassador
for ecology and the
environment.

14. Pelé was named FIFA's "Co-Player of
the Century" in 1999, along with
Argentine Diego Maradona. To many,
his accomplishments on the soccer
field will never be equaled, and
virtually all great athletes in the sport
are measured against the Brazilian
who once made the world stop to
watch his transcendent play.

15. France Football asked their
former Ballon d'Or winners to
choose the Football Player of the
Century; they selected Pelé. In 1999,
Pelé was elected Athlete of the
Century by the IOC, and Time named
him in their list of 100 most
influential people of the 20th century

16. According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful
league goal scorer in the world, with 541 league
goals.In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games,
including unofficial friendlies and tour games, for
which he was listed in the Guinness World Records for
most career goals scored in football.During his playing
days, Pelé was for a period the best-paid athlete in the
world. In his native Brazil, he is hailed as a national
hero, for his accomplishments in football, and for his
vocal support of policies to improve the social
conditions of the poor. In 1961, Brazil President Jânio
Quadros had Pelé declared a national treasure. During
his career, he became known as "The Black Pearl",
"The King of Football" , "The King Pelé" or simply
"The King“.
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17. On 21 February 1966, Pelé married Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi; they have two
daughters, Kelly Cristina (born 13 January 1967), who married Dr. Arthur DeLuca,
and Jennifer (b. 1978), as well as a son, Edson . The couple divorced in
1982. Brazilian media have reported that in 1977 Pelé had his right kidney
removed. From 1981 to 1986, Pelé was romantically linked with the model Xuxa,
and was seen as influential in launching her career; she was 17 when they
started to date.In April 1994 Pelé married psychologist and singer Assíria Lemos
Seixas, who gave birth on 28 September 1996 to twins Joshua and Celeste
through fertility treatments. The couple are now separated. Pelé had at least two
more children from former affairs. Sandra Macedo, his daughter with a
housemaid Anizia Machado in 1964, for years fought to be acknowledged by
Pelé, who refused to submit to DNA tests. Although she was recognized by
courts as his daughter based on DNA evidence in 1993, Pelé never
acknowledged his eldest daughter even after her death, in 2006, nor her two
children, Octavio and Gabriel. Pelé had had another daughter, Flavia Kurts, in an
extra-marital affair in 1968 with a journalist called Lenita Kurtz. Flavia was
recognized by him as his daughter. At the age of 73, Pelé announced his
intention to marry 41-year-old Marcia Aoki, a Japanese-Brazilian importer of
medical equipment from Penápolis, São Paulo, whom he has been dating since
2010. They first met in the mid-1980s in New York, before meeting again in
2008.Pelé is now married to Marcia Aoki who stood by him during his illness in
2014.

18. Pelé scouted for Premier
League club Fulham in 2002. He
made the draw for the qualification
groups for the 2006 FIFA World
Cup finals.

19. In 2005, Pelé
received a
lifetime
achievement
award from
the BBC and,
in June 2006,
helped
inaugurate
the 2006 FIFA
World Cup
finals.

20. Brazil President Lula and Pelé
in commemoration for 50
years since the first World
Cup title won by Brazil
in 1958, at the Palácio do
Planalto, 2008

21. Pelé in South
Africa during
the 2010 FIFA
World Cup,
10 June
2010.

22. In 2012, Pelé was
awarded
an honorary
degree from
the University of
Edinburgh for
"significant
contribution to
humanitarian and
environmental
causes, as well as
his sporting
achievements", his
first such degree
from a European
university

23. On 12 August 2012, Pelé was
an attendee at the 2012
Olympic hunger
summit hosted by UK Prime
Minister David Cameron at 10
Downing Street, London, part
of a series of international
efforts which have sought to
respond to the return of
hunger as a high profile
global issue. Later on the
same day, Pelé appeared at
the closing ceremony of
the 2012 Summer Olympics in
London, following the
handover section to the next
host city for the 2016 Summer
Olympics, Rio de Janeiro.

24. Pelé at the
White House
on 10
September
1986, with
U.S.
President Ro
nald
Reagan and
Brazil
President Jo
sé Sarney.

25. Pelé at the
annual
meeting of
the World
Economic
Forum in D
avos,
Switzerland
on 26
January
2006.

26. Pelé, Brazil's
Extraordinary
Minister for
Sport, with
U.S.
President Bill
Clinton in Rio
de Janeiro, 15
October 1997

27. Pelé cries on the
shoulder of Gilmar
dos Santos Neves,
after Brazil won
the 1958 World
Cup

28. Pelé fighting for
a ball against
the Swedish
goalkeeper
Kalle
Svensson
during the 1958
World Cup final

29. This soccer
superstar also hold
the record of
becoming the
youngest player to
score a hat-trick in
World Cup.
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