Pele - perhaps the greatest footballer this world has ever seen - has died. Pele - perhaps the greatest footballer this world has ever seen - has died. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in Três Corações in 1940, he would go on to conquer the football world using a nickname given to him at school - Pele. The son of Fluminense striker Dodinho, the young Pele witnessed his father crying after Brazil lost the deciding game of the 1950 World Cup on home soil and vowed to personally deliver the Jules Rimet trophy back home. Advertisement Barely eight years later,...