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Lionel Messi draws Brazilian fans to what could be the Argentine great's last match in Rio

Many Brazilians have become fans of Lionel Messi in recent years

The Independent UK

Bobby Charlton: the miner’s son who became a gifted, global icon

From modest beginnings to a career like no other, Charlton, who has died aged 86, came to symbolise the best of English football. He was world renowned yet never forgot his roots

The Guardian - UK

Neymar breaks Pele's Brazil goal-scoring record in 5-1 win in South American World Cup qualifying

Neymar eclipses Pelé as Brazil's top goal scorer, scoring 78 goals in 114 matches. He celebrated with a punch in the air, as Pelé usually did, and was congratulated by the Brazilian soccer confederation and Pelé's Foundation. Neymar said he was "very happy" and wanted to write his story in…

The Hindu

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"We don’t take our brotherhood for granted now": Max and Iggor Cavalera on mending fences, Sepultura and the legacy of global metal

From blinding each other as kids to meeting Pelé and Javier Bardem, Max and Iggor Cavalera reflect on 40 years of music

Metal Hammer

Messi is heading to the US as Saudi Arabia kicks off bidding war with MLS for aging soccer stars

The announcements on consecutive days that the storied Real Madrid and France soccer star Karim Benzema is joining the Saudi Pro League and that Lionel Messi, thought by many to be soccer’s GOAT, intends to play in the United States’ Major League Soccer may mark the beginning of a new…

The Conversation

Premier League 2022-23 review: the season’s best photos

Memorable moments and indelible images from another captivating top flight season

The Guardian - UK

Pelé’s mausoleum in Brazil opens to public as fans pay homage

The last resting place of Pelé overlooks the Brazilian stadium where he played for almost two decades

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Pelé's mausoleum in Brazil opens to public

The mausoleum built in a Santos vertical cemetery for the golden casket of Pelé has opened to the public

The Independent UK

Football legend Pele officially enters Brazilian dictionary, here’s what the word means

Pelé, which is the nickname of the late Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento has officially entered the popular Brazilian Portuguese-language Michaelis dictionary.

The Times of India

'Pelé' now officially means 'exceptional,' a Brazilian dictionary declares

"Pelé" — the nickname of one of soccer's greatest players — has long been used as a synonym for greatness. Now, a Brazilian dictionary is making that meaning official with a new entry.

WEKU

Brazilian dictionary adds Pelé as adjective, synonym of best

A Brazilian dictionary has added “Pelé” as an adjective to use when describing someone who is “exceptional, incomparable, unique.”

The Independent UK

Messi Honored with a Statue at South America’s Soccer HQ

The tributes continue to pour in for Lionel Messi following Argentina's World Cup triumph. South American soccer's governing body on Monday presented the 35-year-old Argentine star a with statue, which will be placed in the CONMEBOL museum next to those of legendary players Pelé and Diego Maradona. Messi also received…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Socceroo, milkman, friend to Pelé: football mourns Manfred Schaefer

The defender represented Australia 73 times, including at the 1974 World Cup, and will be remembered by the Socceroos on Tuesday night

The Guardian - AU

Edinburgh footballer on the day he swapped shirts with superstar Pelé after 5-1 win

Unable to get into the 'Turnbulls Tornadoes' first team at Hibs in the early 1970s, Alex Pringle left Scotland for Florida, where he ended up playing against the likes of Pelé to packed stadiums in the sunshine and for double the money.

Edinburgh Live

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Daily Record

Elsie Cook's football revolution is huge departure from days of borrowing strips and begging for boots

Elsie Cook is one of the pioneering figures within women’s football in the UK who helped to reverse the women’s football ban.

The Guardian - UK

The Best Fifa Awards: a pantomime in Paris staged by the Imperial Starfleet

Fifa’s glittering ceremony at the Salle Pleyel was one more step in its relentless quest for power under the emperor Infantino

The Independent UK

Messi and Putellas voted best players at FIFA awards again

World Cup winner Lionel Messi has won FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award for 2022

The Conversation

How apartheid, European racism and Pelé helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures into the MLS

North America’s most diverse professional league kicks off on Feb. 25, 2023, as Major League Soccer returns after a winter break.

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Radio France Internationale

A football icon remembered

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the late Brazilian football icon, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. There’s info about the International Day of Human Fraternity, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”,…

Birmingham Post

Derbyshire auctioneers to sell off shirt made for Pele’s last Brazil international game

Pelé – who was in the 1958, 62 and 70 World Cups winning teams – died on December 28

The Guardian - UK

Lionel Messi returns to PSG duty with Pelé tribute and goal in win over Angers

Lionel Messi celebrated his return after the World Cup by scoring as PSG beat Angers 2-0 to move six points clear at the top of Ligue 1

Belfast Live

John 'Jobby' Crossan: The NI footballing legend now honouring future stars of sport

The living soccer legend shared a pitch with many footballing greats including the iconic trio of Best, Eusébio and Pelé

The Guardian - UK

The time to die should be of our choosing

However difficult it is to legally protect assisted dying, we should still try

The Guardian - UK

Infantino’s call for Pelé stadiums everywhere is a monument to folly

Fifa president has utterly failed to grasp how football allows communities to celebrate their local heroes

The Guardian - UK

Pelé’s name, Greta’s email and Wednesday’s song – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

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