"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.

An ageing Pele was mostly off-colour against a spirited local Mohun Bagan team, the papers said Do you like to be addressed as Your Excellency, Mr Pele? a reporter in the eastern Indian city of ...