The world of football has lost its king with the news that the great Pele passed away at the age of 82. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, or Pele as he was known and loved, passed away on 29 December ...

Yet as supernatural as those strikers were for Brazil, they didn’t manage to catch Pele’s haul of 77 goals. In a dramatic FIFA World Cup quarter-final, it was finally equalled – and by ...

Pelé was always a proponent of African progress at the Fifa World Cup tournaments. His apocryphal prediction in the mid-1970s that an African team would win the tournament before the year 2000 is ...