Pele

Cape Verde has become the first country to name a stadium after Pele following FIFA president, Gianni Infantino’s call for every nation to do so, Standard UK reports. The Prime Minister of the African country said they would name their…

Brazilians bid a final farewell this week to football giant Pele, starting Monday with a 24-hour public wake at the stadium of his long-time team, Santos.The oceanside home of the team nicknamed “Peixe” — “fish” in Portuguese — is expecting…

The burial of the late football legend Pele has been set for Monday and Tuesday. The wake will be held on Monday and his body will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his Santos home, where he enchanted the world, according to his former club.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele, who died on Thursday. The world’s greatest ever football player succumbed to…

Legendary Brazilian footballer, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele is dead. He was 82. Pele died on Thursday after days in intensive care, the UK Mirror reports. The three-time World Cup winner had been undergoing…

Worried football fans in Brazil on Sunday held a vigil for football icon Pele outside the hospital where the 82-year-old is currently being treated for respiratory infection amid reports that he has been moved to an end-of-life ward.…

England captain Harry Kane has sent his best wishes to Pele as concerns remain over the Brazil legend’s health. According to Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the 82-year-old was moved to palliative treatment after chemotherapy…

Football legend Pele ‘is moved to end-of-life care’ ward in the hospital, as his body is no longer responding to chemotherapy in the fight against bowel cancer, Daily Mail reported. Reports from Brazil indicated that the 82-year-old…

The legendary Brazil star, Pele, has reportedly been hospitalised in Sao Paulo with swelling all over his body. Pele, who is reported to be currently undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer, was taken to the Albert Einstein hospital…