The greatest football player of all time, Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento “Pelé”, died on Thursday.
At the age of 82, he had a respiratory infection and complications related to Covid-19 and colon cancer.
Pele underwent surgery in September 2021 and has undergone several chemotherapy sessions since then.
In this year of 2022, metastasis in the intestine, lung and liver were found.
The family has not yet informed details about the wake, but it will be held at Vila Belmiro.
Taking into account his advanced age and treatment, the king of football has reduced his public appearances in recent years, but via social media he had expressed optimism about recovery.
Pelé was the best exhibition of what the Brazilian national team is with a showy football, several goals and titles. The history of a three world championship cup winner, from the southern state of Minas Gerais, which started at the age of sixteen.
While playing for the Brazilian national team, Pelé scored 77 goals in 92 official games. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) reports friendly matches against clubs and state teams, thus increasing the King´s figures with a total of 113 games (84 wins, 15 draws and 14 defeats) and 95 goals.
In World Cups, the star scored 12 times (average of 0.85 goals per game) in 14 matches.
The “King of Football” wore the yellow jersey from 1957 to 1971, with ten victories: three World Cups (1958, 1962 and 1970), two Roca Cups (1957 and 1963), an Atlantic Cup (1960), three Oswaldo Cruz Cups (1958, 1962 and 1968) and a Bernardo O'Higgins Cup (1959).
