"If you would use the word perfect, Pele almost is there. He was the greatest soccer player in the history of this game," says former West German star Franz Beckenbauer on ESPN Classic's ...

Outside the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo, fans started gathering when they heard the news of Pele passing. Some were dressed in the number 10 shirt Pele wore when playing for Santos.

"O Rei", Pelé, playing for the Brazilian national team at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro Pelé, o Rei, has died. Brazil and the world are grieving, and many of us mourn an idol we never ...