By Staff Reporter
Death has been announced of the Brazilian football legend Pele.
Pele died on Thursday evening December 29,2022 at the age of 82.
According to BBC the footballer had been suffering from kidney and prostate problems in recent years and was expected to have his tumour removed from his colon in September 2021 at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, after the tumour was detected in routine tests.
He was readmitted to hospital in late November 2022
Some football history portals say that Pele was the greatest football player, who was credited with scoring a world record 1,281 goals in 1,363 appearances during a 21-year career, including 77 goals in 92 matches for his country.
He is also the only player to win the World Cup three times, lifting the trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970, Pele was named Fifa’s Player of the Century in 2000.
