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Article: Pelé
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- UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Pel
É
Born: October 23, 1940
Tres Coracoes, Brazil
Brazilian soccer star
Pel
é
, called "the Black Pearl," was one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the game. With a career total of 1,280 games, he may have been the world's most popular athlete in his prime.
A young talent
Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, who took the name Pel
é
, was born on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil, the son of a minor league soccer player. Pel
é
grew up in an extremely poor neighborhood, where one of the only sources of entertainment for a poor boy was to play soccer, barefoot and with a makeshift ball. Many players on the Brazilian soccer fields gained nicknames that ...