No matter. The name stuck. Pele, the athlete, came out of nowhere as well. In 1958, people turned on the television to watch the first international broadcast of the World Cup. Black and white ...

who originally had a different last name than Pele. "He changed it to Pele, which was another family member's first name. He chose to take the first name of that side of the family instead of the ...

Pelé was and always will be a household name. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro ... an icon for the whole country," my mum tells me. "Pelé won his first World Cup only 70 years after slavery was ...