From dating much younger women to fathering love children — sometimes while married — the late soccer legend Pelé was all about “love, love, love.”
in the Brazilian press, and doctors had said he was no longer responding to treatments related to colon cancer that was discovered last year.
“In Portuguese, when you kick the ball with the foot we say ‘Pe,’ and maybe I made some mistakes, I don’t know, but my teammates started to say ‘Pe-lé,’ more and more,” he later . “I didn’t like it because my name was Edson, but it started and here I am. Anyway, my family and the ones [who] are close to me still call me Dico. That’s what they call me at home.” Getty Images
Marcia Aoki met Pelé when she was a teenager at a party in the 1980s. They reunited years later — the year he split from Lemos — and married in 2016.The athlete married his first wife, Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi in February 1966, and the couple had three children: daughters Kely and Jennifer, and son Edinho. But the marriage soon began unraveling, thanks in part to Pelé’s constant travel with his Santos team and media and advertising demands — and in part to his roving eye.
The New York Cosmos helped Pelé avoid financial ruin with a contract that would make him the highest paid athlete in the world.A succession of bad business deals and equally poor legal advice had left Pele with substantial debts in Brazil with one of his investments in Fiolax, a company that made rubber components for the car industry, which proved to be his biggest headache.
The Englishman flew to Brussels, where Pelé was due to play in a charity game and had just one hour before he was scheduled to fly out to Casablanca for an audience with the King of Morocco. Despite interest from some of Europe’s biggest soccer clubs, like Juventus in Italy and Real Madrid in Spain, Toye’s sales pitch was completely different: “I said if you go there, all you can do is win another championship. If you come here, you can win a country.
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