The lying-in-state ceremony for football legend Pele has started today in a public showing at the home ground of his former club Santos. The three-time World Cup winner will have his coffin placed at the center circle of the Vila Belmiro Stadium in Sao Paulo where there will be gate access for the general public and separate entrances for political officials and other prominent figures, along...
Following the death of football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento - Pele, Afrosport reminisces on his playing career and a memorable event that took place in Nigeria when an armistice was called in the middle of the civil war in October 1969. A brutal civil war started in Nigeria in 1967 between the Nigerian Government and the Republic of Biafra (South-Eastern Nigeria) and the fight was...
Football's greatest icon Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, passed away at the age of 82 on Thursday. Pele died at the Albert Einstein hospital in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo following a battle with cancer. Afrosport looks at some of his most outstanding achievements as we honour an illustrious life that influenced not only football but the whole world. 1 - The...
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