Pele
Welcome to this webpage as you can see we will be sharing facts about Pele, a footballer.
Pele is a one of the best footballers in the world but has now retired because he got too old.
Pele was a really good footballer he scored multiple of goals throughout his football career
Santos bought Pele when he was 15 because he was the best player in the under 15's football team.
Pele scored more than 1,000 goals for his last team ,he scored the most goals in the world , Pele retired in 1977 when he was 36.
Pele was named after American inventor Thomas Edison, his real name being Edson Arantes do Nascimiento.Pele is credited with six five-goal hauls, scored four in a game on 30 occasions and netted 92 hat-tricks to finish his career with 1,281 goals.
Waldemar de Brito, another great Brazilian forward, is credited with discovering Pele, taking him to Santos, and telling them that he was going to be "the greatest football player in the world. "The King" played for his football club for Sao Paulo club Santos from 1956-1974, with his 1,000th career goal coming at the Maracana in 1969 in front of his adoring home support
Having quit the game in 1974, Pele returned to action for the New York Cosmos the following year with the hope of bringing "o jogo bonito" (the beautiful game) to the American public. Pelé was the recipient of the International Peace Award in 1978. In 1980 he was named Athlete of the Century by the French sports publication L’Equipe, and he received the same honour in 1999 from the International Olympic Committee. In addition to his accomplishments in sports, he published several best-selling autobiographies and starred in several successful documentary and semi-documentary films. He also composed numerous musical pieces, including the soundtrack for the film Pelé (1977).