Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian football great Pele has been hospitalized in Sao Paulo since Monday as part of his treatment for colon cancer, the medical center that treats him said. The clinical condition of Edson Arantes do Nascimento is "good and stable, and he should be discharged from hospital in the next few days," […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian football great Pele has been discharged from a Sao Paulo hospital following two weeks of treatment for a tumor and a urinary tract infection, the medical institution said Monday. The 81-year-old ex-player known as "O Rei" (The King), was "in a stable clinical condition, cured of his urinary infection, and […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian football great Pele will remain hospitalized for a urinary tract infection in a Sao Paulo hospital, where he was already receiving chemotherapy for a colon tumor, the facility said Monday. The 81-year-old ex-player known as "O Rei" (The King) was initially admitted to the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – The son of Brazilian football legend Pele was ordered released on Wednesday pending an appeal against his conviction and 13-year sentence for laundering drug-trafficking money. Edson "Edinho" Cholbi do Nascimento, 46, had turned himself in last Friday, a day after a judge reconfirmed his conviction handed down in 2014 but […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – The son of football legend Pele turned himself in late Friday after being ordered by a Brazilian court to begin serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence for money laundering and drug trafficking. Edson "Edinho" Cholbi do Nascimento, who briefly played for his father's former club Santos, had so far avoided serving […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – A Brazilian court has ruled that football legend Pele's son Edinho, who was convicted of money laundering and drug trafficking, must begin serving nearly 13 years in prison, his lawyer said. The 46-year-old former goalkeeper, who briefly played for his father's former club Santos, was sentenced to 33 years in 2014. […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazil football legend Pele is getting married Tuesday for the third time, tying the knot with his girlfriend of six years Marcia Cibele Aoki. Pele, 75, told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that this time, he has found "love forever." Pele and Aoki met in New York in the 1980s […]

London (AFP) – The three-day sale of memorabilia belonging to world football icon Pele ended in London on Thursday with the artefacts sold for the princely total of £3.4million ($5million, 4.4million euros). The final day of the sale — held in London but under the banner of Los Angeles based auction house Julien's — was […]

London (AFP) – A special replica World Cup trophy presented to world football icon Pele fetched £395,000 (500,000 euros, $570,000) at an auction of his personal memorabilia in London on Wednesday. Two of the 75-year-old Brazil legend's three World Cup winners medals also went under the hammer selling for well over their estimated price going […]

London (AFP) – The three-day sale of more than 2,000 items from world football icon Pele's personal memorabilia kicked off on Tuesday, with shirts, souvenirs and medals all going under the hammer. The Brazil legend's collection of items from his extraordinary career, being sold in London by Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions, is expected to fetch […]

Brazilian soccer legend Pele had hip surgery in the United States last month and is still there undergoing physiotherapy, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The Folha de Sao Paulo said surgeons in New York City operated on the 75-year-old to fix a loose hip implant he received in 2012. Winner of three World Cups with […]