Pelé obituary

December 30, 2022 at 6:31 am Leave a comment

King of the “beautiful game”

^{Pelé popularised the description of football as “the beautiful game” and no one played it more beautifully or with such joy than the man known as the King in his native Brazil. He was the sport’s first global superstar and by common consensus its greatest, although some made competing claims for the Argentinians Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, the Dutchman Johan Cruyff or Portugal’s Ronaldo, among others.}