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When that headline ran in a Rio de Janeiro newspaper in 1966, it seemed to a lot of soccer fans that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, alias Pelé, alias the King, was indeed dead-or at least he had lost his crown. The exciting, agile, acrobatic youth who almost single-handed won Brazil the World Cup in 1958 and led his Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from Pel...
...turned back last week. Led by a slimmed-down, rejuvenated Pelé, who set up one goal with a leaping, twisting head pass, the other with a deft little sideways kick, Santos beat archrival Sao Paulo 2-1-thereby winning the Sao Paulo Cup for the eighth time in ten years and stamping itself once again as probably the best pro club in the world. "This is what I wanted!" shouted the King-his crown safe again...
...January, a group in Harlem invited the young Brazilian to be their guest of honor at luncheon as "the most popular man of the Negro race in the world." That was a touch of hyperbole, although there is no doubt that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 26, otherwise known as Pelé, is the most famous athlete in the world-at least outside of the U.S. His soccer team, Santos, was in New York when the Harlem invitation came, Pele explained in a TV interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial...
...dozen years. One day a week, Britain's Prince Andrew, 6, motors out from Buckingham Palace with his nanny and his detective to mix it up with some of the local stars at the public playground in Cale Street, Chelsea. Andrew tears around the blacktop like a pale Pelé, but he does seem to be more careful than his big brother. At Scotland's Gordonstoun School a couple of months ago, Bonny Prince Charlie emerged from a game of rugby with a broken nose...
Married. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 25, better known as Pelé, Brazil's-and probably the world's-best soccer player; and Rosemary Cholbi, 20, a Santos dockworker's daughter; in Santos, Brazil...