Tag: Pele

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Football legend Pele returns to Brazil after been discharged from Paris hospital

  

  Brazilian football legend Pele, who has been in hospital in Paris, will return to Brazil on Monday, his advisor announced. “We're going back to Sao Paulo on Monday,” said the advisor, without providing any more details.

• Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 08:07 UTC

  Pele admits tourists are cancelling trips to Brazil because of protests and delays

  

  Protests in Brazil and delays in building stadiums are putting the World Cup next month at risk and prompting tourists to stay away, soccer great Pele said on Monday. Brazil's tournament organizers have faced headwinds since the country was tapped to host the World Cup in 2007.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Pelé desperate to exorcise Brazil's defeat and loss of the World Cup to Uruguay in 1950

  

  Brazil's Pelé, the legendary attacker believes that his country's national team has the ideal opportunity to exorcise the demons of their 2-1 infamous loss to Uruguay at the Maracana 64 years ago, more precisely 16 July 1950.

• Friday, December 6th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Maracana, July1950, when Uruguay silenced 200.000 Brazilian fans at the Cup's final

  

  Pele, the only person to win three World Cups as a player, said Brazil will enter next year’s tournament with more humility than when the country last hosted soccer’s greatest event in 1950. On 16 July that year Brazil was shocked 2-1 by Uruguay in the final game at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium in what is considered as a national tragedy by some Brazilians.

• Friday, June 14th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

  Countdown for 2014 World Cup takes off with simultaneous events in Rio, Sao Paulo and Brasilia

  

  The countdown to 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil officially began this Wednesday 12 June. Simultaneous events in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia celebrated the unveiling of a clock marking the time remaining to the opening game of Brazil 2014.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 17:24 UTC

  Pele says Brazil “is not ready” to host the 2014 World Cup

  

  Brazil is not yet ready to host the 2014 World Cup, football great Pele told the ESPN Soccernet website in an interview posted on Friday. According to Pele, chaotic organization and communication difficulties are the biggest problems facing Brazil as it prepares for the World Cup.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Brazil’s ‘beautiful game’ fans want big boss ‘cartola’ out

  

  Ricardo Teixeira has dominated Brazilian football for so long that, like many of the best players, he is known by just one name. They call him the “cartola,” literally the “top hat,” a title given to football bosses that instil respect and fear in equal measure and can carry more than a hint of shadiness.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 21:06 UTC

  Who’s the best player ever: Pelé, Maradona, Romario or Messi?

  

  Former Barcelona (1993/95) striker Romario and 1994 World Cup champion came on stage to say that Argentine star Lionel Messi still has some way to go before he can call himself the best player ever.