Over this sample, Pele shot about as well as Messi from long range and considerably better from short range. I don’t mean to suggest that this proves Pele was better than Messi: ...

He always got his head over a bouncing ball, keeping the shot down. Pele’s only World Cup hat-trick came in the semi-final, a 5-2 win over France.

Pelé was a disrupter in the way that mattered most to him: He expanded the limits of the possible. But what did he really think about what soccer had become?

What Pele dislikes about Messi's abilities is unclear; perhaps he was taking a shot at his lack of credentials on the international stage, but that is just speculation (plus, Neymar similarly ...

Yet in Santos, Brazil, where Pelé shot to stardom and spent much of his career, his death hit like nowhere else, the loss more personal and intimate. ... See more on: Pele. Read 20 Comments. 20.

Pele scored 1,281 goals in his 22-year career and is the only player to be on three World Cup champions. ... By the end of that World Cup, the name Pele had shot across the globe.

He stops at a shot of himself sitting on a riverbed, proudly posing with a tilapia dangling from the end of his fishing rod. "It's a St. Peters fish," he says, beaming. He explains that it's best ...

Pelé gets his first COVID-19 shot, urges mask use. AP. SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, calling it an “unforgettable day. ...

Pele, in 2012, posing in front of a photo of his famous bicycle kick attempt from a 1965 friendly between Brazil and Belgium. ... None more so than the shot of Pelé levitating upside-down, ...

By the time you read this I don’t know if Pele, 82, will be alive. But as I wrote, he was in Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital, fading from colon cancer and blood disorders. I was still wet ...

Pelé, Charismatic Master of the “Beautiful Game,” Dies at 82. The Brazilian superstar played in four World Cups and was the only player to win three, in 1958, 1962 and 1970.