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2. Pelé - Wikipedia

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   Pelé Pelé with Brazil in 1970 Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento (1940-10-23) 23 October 1940 Três Corações, Brazil Died 29 December 2022 (2022-12-29) (aged 82) São Paulo, Brazil Resting place Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, Santos, São Paulo Occupations Footballer humanitarian Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Spouses Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi (m. 1966; div. 1982) Assíria Lemos Seixas (m. 1994 ...

3. North American Soccer League (1968–1984) - Wikipedia

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   The North American Soccer League ( NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the United States. The league final was called the Soccer Bowl from 1975 to 1983 and the Soccer Bowl Series ...

4. New York Cosmos (1970–1985) - Wikipedia

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   The New York Cosmos (simply the Cosmos in 1977–1978) were an American professional soccer club based in New York City and its suburbs. The team played home games in three stadiums around New York, including Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, before moving in 1977 to Giants Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the club remained for the rest of its history.

5. How Pelé kicked off a soccer revolution in America

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   OPINION: Americans' interest in "futbol" was meager at best until the Brazilian soccer legend came to town to help resuscitate a fledging soccer league. The post How Pelé kicked off a soccer ...

6. Pelé, who rose from a Brazilian slum to become the world's ...

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   The Brazilian soccer legend died Thursday at age 82. (Associated Press) Growing up in Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento so hated the nonsensical nickname his grade school playmates used to tease ...

7. Appreciation: Pelé was the greatest soccer player. Was that ...

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   Pelé won two and easily could've won four in a row if not for an injury early in the 1962 World Cup in Chile (though Brazil still won) and a succession of ugly hackings during the 1966 World Cup ...