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After Brazil lost the 1950 World Cup final to Uruguay, a 9 or 10-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, now better known as Thus began Pelé's storied career, and by the time he played his final professional game in 1977, he’d netted over 1,280 career goals as part of Brazil’s Santos Football Club and the New York Cosmos. Although he was widely considered to be the greatest soccer player of all time, here are 10 things you might not know about Pelé: He was named after Thomas Edison As Pelé explained in a September 2014 “I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson,” he wrote in a Guardian piece. “I thought Pelé sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.” Although the sports star added he “can never be 100 percent certain about the origin,” the most probable explanation is that the nickname was given to him by classmates because he mispronounced the name of one of his dad’s soccer teammates: Vasco de Sao Lourenco, a goalkeeper affectionately known as "Bilé." “So when someone said, "Hey, Pelé," I would shout back and get angry. On one occasion I punched a classmate because of it and earned a two-day suspension,” he wrote. “Now I love the name — but back then it wound me up no end.” He got creative when he couldn’t afford a soccer ball or shoes Growing up in poverty, Pelé practiced his dribbling skills with a Pelé (center, in yellow jersey) on the ball for Brazil during a group stage match ...

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Did Pele Stop The Bloodiest Civil War in Nigeria's History for 48 Hours. Pele & The Nigerian Civil War The Nigerian Ceasefire Legend So did Pelés visit really cause a pause in hostilities in the Nigerian civil war? And if not, where did this story come from? There are several versions of the ceasefire story on the Internet. One version states that the match took place in 1967 while another claims it was in 1969. There are reports that the match was played in Lagos and there are also accounts that it was played in Benin. The ceasefire story is a myth, despite the reports of this story on websites like CNN, Time, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Goal.com, Wikipedia, Globoesporte.com, etc. There is no reported Nigerian evidence of this story. Two key Nigerian newspapers Nigerian Daily Times (Lagos) and Nigerian Observer (Benin) were researched for this piece. There was no mention of a civil war ceasefire for a Santos match in the 1969 issues of these two newspapers. Both papers extensively covered Santos two matches in Nigeria thus making them credible sources. The reason why some versions of the supposed ceasefire story state 1967 could be attributed to an error in Pelés 1977 autobiography My Life and the Beautiful Game. He said in the book that he visited Lagos in 1967 with Santos, but he and Santos didnt visit Lagos until 1969. Pelé travelled a lot with Santos in the sixties so it is no surprise that he got the dates mixed up. It is interesting that Pelé didnt mention the supp...

Brazilian football legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly known as Pele who is being mourned globally as a footballer, minister and singer after his death on Thursday, December 29, 2022, aged 82 was a man of many firsts and incredible feats. The first and only player to win the FIFA world cup three times: 1958, 1962 and 1970. He was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee. He was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century alongside Maradona. He was included in the Time list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century and is recognised by the Guinness World Record for the most career goals. None of these feats however comes close to his playing in Lagos in the middle of the Nigeria civil war in 1969. Two years after a civil war broke out in Nigeria on July 6 1967, between Nigeria and the Biafra secessionist led by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, Pele and his teammates from Santos, his club side, would find themselves playing a football match in Lagos, Nigeria’s capital at the time, in the middle of the war. How Pele’s journey to Nigeria started In the 1960s, Santos, a Brazilian football club, was taking the sport around the world through tours which involved the club playing with local teams and Nigeria was one of the countries where they were scheduled to play. In 1969, while the war was ongoing in Niger...

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The late soccer legend Pelé, believed to have engineered a ceasefire during the 1967–1970 Nigerian civil war, passed away on Thursday after a battle with cancer and multiple death rumours. The legend, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, travelled to Nigeria in January 1969 to play friendly matches with the Super Eagles, who were then known as the Green Eagles, alongside his Brazilian club Santos. Due to the great footballer’s charisma, the warring parties — Nigeria and Biafra — decided to put a 48-hour halt to hostilities so they could watch the friendly matches, which were played in Lagos and Benin, respectively. Apart from his peace-brokering visit to Nigeria, here are other things the great Pelé will be remembered for. Goals scoring prowess First, on the list is his prolificity when it comes to goals scoring. Pelé played with Santos from 1956 until 1974, making 605 matches and scoring 589 goals. He played with the New York Cosmos from 1975 to 1977, making 64 games and scoring 37 goals. He played for XI Classic from 1978 to 1980 before retiring. Three World Cup wins In addition to that, the late Brazilian sensation lifted three World Cup trophies. Pele played in four World Cups with Brazil’s Seleço Canarinho (1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970) and won three of them (1958, 1962, and 1970), making him the player with the most trophies. The next achievement in numbers is the striker’s total World Cup goals. Pele’s first of 12 World Cup goals came in the last eight agai...

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Pele with his Santos FC team mates, 23rd June 1969. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) “The official season starts actually with the famous (and still mysterious) tour of Africa. A tour so full of stories that there is no clear boundary between legend and fact.”Professor Guilherme TheBrazilian club, Santos, embarked on a money-making African Football tour in January 1969. The itinerary included exhibition matches in The Congo, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana, and Algeria. Pele, the world’s best football player at the time, was a Santos player and the star attraction on this tour. He got crowds into the stadium and enabled Santos to charge high appearance fees for their exhibition matches. Fans wanted to see him play against their teams and were willing to pay for that privilege. The Lagos Match Santos arrived at the Lagos International Airport on Sunday morning, January 26, 1969. They were scheduled to play their exhibition match against the Green Eagles, Nigeria’s national team, that afternoon at the Lagos City Stadium. 28-year-old Pele was received by Nigerian football officials and journalists eager to welcome him to the country. Santos arrived in Lagos on the back of a 3–2 defeat in Kinshasa to Congo’s national team — the Leopards. The Lagos match was arranged by the Nigeria Football Association who paid Santos about £11000 (Nigerian pound sterling) to play against the Green Eagles. The Nigerian pound was the official national currency until it was repl...