Pele, said O Rei, the strongest footballer in the world with over 1.280 gol and three world championships won with Brazil's shirt, the most football icon international he passed away at the age of 82. He died at the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo, where he had been hospitalized since before Christmas. He had been ill for some time and in the end unfortunately colon cancer knocked him out. He mourns him all the desperately Brazil and in particular Santos, from which his extraordinary adventure started and matured, but the whole world of football mourns him.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, as Pelè was actually called, had leapt to international headlines at the age of just 17 when in Sweden he won his first World Cup which he celebrated without holding back tears. Since then he has won two other World Cups (he was the only one in the world to have won three) and he has never lost the crown of the strongest in the world, threatened only later by the Argentines Maradona e Messi.
