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NEW YORK – Pelé was remembered for a life beyond the field, for transcending the sport of soccer and becoming perhaps the most well-known person on Earth. “Before Pelé, ’10′ was just a number,” ...

NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman examines what Pelé meant to soccer. The legendary Brazilian player died this week at age 82. Also, we look... Saturday Sports: What Pelé meant to soccer ALINA ...

Washington, D.C., has no lack of soccer legends. Many of the game’s greats have plied their trade in the District — names like Johan Cruyff, Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Hristo Stoichkov and Marco ...

“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...

He’d won three World Cups, scored goals galore and become a global icon, but Pelé wasn’t quite done yet, so off he went to the US and helped transform the sport of soccer in North America. The ...

Portella is a professional dancer who was born in Brazil. She lives in Point Loma. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s, and I truly believed that Pelé was my “rei” (king). Pelé ignited my ...

Pelé, soccer’s first global superstar, has died at the age of 82. To many fans, the Brazilian will be remembered as the best to have ever played the game. For others it goes further: He was the symbol ...