Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Arguably the greatest player to play football, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pele (82), breathed his last at a Sao Paulo hospital on Thursday after losing a prolonged battle against cancer.

Football's original G.O.A.T., the man who made football 'the beautiful game', global sporting hero and Brazil's former sports minister, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who, as 'Pele', overawed the world and became the sport's…

Called by various names such as 'Gasolina', 'The Black Pearl' and 'O Rei' (The King), the nickname that stuck like glue to Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who, as 'Pele', became the greatest footballer the world has ever known.