With its top player's newfound fame, Santos turned into the Harlem Globetrotters of international soccer, with Pele receiving a hefty share of Santos' exhibition fees. He became the world's highest ...

March 14 (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo hailed Pele after he surpassed the Brazilian great's goal-scoring haul in official matches by netting a hat-trick in Juventus' 3-1 Serie A win over Cagliari on ...

Football great Pele celebrates his 80th birthday on October 23. As Brazil’s all-time leading goalscorer, the former striker is one of sport’s most revered figures. Here, the PA news agency looks at ...

The news is out: the only player to win three tournaments tops our greatest players of all-time World Cup leaderboard. And as ...

Diego Maradona and Pele are considered two of the greatest footballers in history – but how do their goals and assists numbers stack up against one another? The two legends have long set the benchmark ...

The eighth of our extracts from The Soccer 100 looks at the King, the first (and still only) man to win three World Cups as a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil great Neymar received a plaque for becoming the team's all-time leading goal-scorer in official matches in the early hours of Saturday. However, the language used to describe ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The goals scored by Pele during his remarkable career are to be commemorated in a collection of gold, silver and bronze medals specially produced by the Brazilian mint. Some 1,283 ...

The Independent has put together a list of the 50 greatest names in World Cup history, based exclusively on their ...