LONDON -- Sooner than we know it, and it seems sooner than Brazil needs to prepare for it, the most successful soccer country on Earth will hold the 2014 World Cup. FIFA and the Brazilian authorities are at odds about the pace of building not just stadiums, but the airports, roads and hotels needed for such a gargantuan event. Those spats are very...
The title of the film about perhaps the world's most famous defunct soccer team was ''Once in a Lifetime.'' Anyone for ''Twice in a Lifetime''? The team in question was the New York Cosmos, the flagship team in the North American Soccer League, which ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Now a group led by the English businessman Paul Kemsley, with...
JOHANNESBURG The World Cup turned on its axis over the weekend. Before Friday, virtually every soccer expert was certain that the power in this tournament belonged to teams from Latin America, that European soccer was stale. And what happened? Predictions were shot through with holes and grown men were reduced to tears. First, Brazil was outplayed...
Edison Arantes do Nascimento (født 23. oktober 1940) bedre kendt som Pelé er en brasiliansk fodboldstjerne. Af mange er han anset som alletiders bedste fodboldspiller. Desuden er han den næstmest scorende spiller i fodbold nogensinde med 1281 mål i 1256 kampe (kun overgået af Arthur Friedenreich).
Han var brasiliansk sportsminister fra 1993-1998 og blev i 2005 udnævnt som H.C. Andersen-ambassadør af H.C. Andersen 2005 Fonden.
Som 15-årig skrev Pelé under på sin første kontrakt med Santos FC, hvor han i øvrigt spillede de næste 17 år og sikrede klubben adskillige titler.
Han var bare 17 år, da han debuterede for det brasilianske landshold i 1958, hvor han scorede både i semifinalen og finalen, hvor Brasilien, ikke overraskende, vandt. Hans far var selv en god fodboldspiller, men han blev stoppet af en skade. Fold ud