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Socceroo, milkman, friend to Pelé: football mourns Manfred Schaefer

The defender represented Australia 73 times, including at the 1974 World Cup, and will be remembered by the Socceroos on Tuesday night

The Guardian - AU

Edinburgh footballer on the day he swapped shirts with superstar Pelé after 5-1 win

Unable to get into the 'Turnbulls Tornadoes' first team at Hibs in the early 1970s, Alex Pringle left Scotland for Florida, where he ended up playing against the likes of Pelé to packed stadiums in the sunshine and for double the money.

Edinburgh Live

Elsie Cook's football revolution is huge departure from days of borrowing strips and begging for boots

Elsie Cook is one of the pioneering figures within women’s football in the UK who helped to reverse the women’s football ban.

Daily Record

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The Best Fifa Awards: a pantomime in Paris staged by the Imperial Starfleet

Fifa’s glittering ceremony at the Salle Pleyel was one more step in its relentless quest for power under the emperor Infantino

The Guardian - UK

Messi and Putellas voted best players at FIFA awards again

World Cup winner Lionel Messi has won FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award for 2022

The Independent UK

How apartheid, European racism and Pelé helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures into the MLS

North America’s most diverse professional league kicks off on Feb. 25, 2023, as Major League Soccer returns after a winter break.

The Conversation

A football icon remembered

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the late Brazilian football icon, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. There’s info about the International Day of Human Fraternity, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”,…

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Derbyshire auctioneers to sell off shirt made for Pele’s last Brazil international game

Pelé – who was in the 1958, 62 and 70 World Cups winning teams – died on December 28

Birmingham Post

Lionel Messi returns to PSG duty with Pelé tribute and goal in win over Angers

Lionel Messi celebrated his return after the World Cup by scoring as PSG beat Angers 2-0 to move six points clear at the top of Ligue 1

The Guardian - UK

John 'Jobby' Crossan: The NI footballing legend now honouring future stars of sport

The living soccer legend shared a pitch with many footballing greats including the iconic trio of Best, Eusébio and Pelé

Belfast Live

The time to die should be of our choosing

However difficult it is to legally protect assisted dying, we should still try

The Guardian - UK

Infantino’s call for Pelé stadiums everywhere is a monument to folly

Fifa president has utterly failed to grasp how football allows communities to celebrate their local heroes

The Guardian - UK

Pelé’s name, Greta’s email and Wednesday’s song – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Pelé was more than a great footballer – he revolutionised Brazil’s football industry

Brazilian football legend Pelé (1940-2022), whose death was announced in December, inspired countless fans with his skills on the pitch. But his contribution to the off-the-pitch business of football is by no means less impressive.

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The Independent UK

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Chicago Sun-Times

Pelé buried at cemetery in Brazilian city he made famous

Pelé was laid to rest in Santos, the city where he grew up, became famous, and helped make into a global capital of his sport.

The Independent UK

Thousands line streets to bid final farewell to Brazil great Pele

Pele was interred after a private funeral service.

The Independent UK

‘His legacy will outlive us all’: Pele takes final journey as thousands attend funeral

The Brazil legend’s casket was taken from Santos’ stadium to a vertical cemetery overlooking the pitch, five days after the icon died of colon cancer at the age of 82

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Daily Mirror

Gianni Infantino hits back with response after scathing criticism over Pele coffin selfie

FIFA chief Gianni Infantino has responded after he was heavily criticised for taking a selfie just yards away from Pele's open coffin during the Brazilian icon's wake on Monday

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | A Harrowing Scene in Cincinnati

Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition at a Cincinnati hospital.

Radio France Internationale

Brazilian president Lula joins the mourners at wake for football icon Pelé

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva paid his last respects on Tuesday to Pelé during a wake for the former Brazil international on the pitch at FC Santos where the player rose to prominence as a teenager in the late 1950s. Lula took office on Sunday in a ceremony…

The Independent UK

Pele funeral – live: Football legend transported to cemetery after funeral in Santos

Pelé, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, will be buried at the Memorial Necropole Ecumenical, a vertical cemetery in Santos, with only his family present

The Independent UK

Pele funeral – live: Brazil legend and three-time World Cup winner to be buried after procession in Santos

Pelé, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, will be buried at the Memorial Necropole Ecumenical, a vertical cemetery in Santos, with only his family present

The Independent UK

Brazil prepares to bury Pelé in city he made soccer Mecca

Forty-five years after Pelé played his last game, it’s hard to imagine modern soccer or Brazil without him

The Conversation

Pelé was ensnared by 'Brazilian-style racism' but stood firm as dictatorship tried to keep him playing

Following the death of arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Prof José Paulo Florenzano of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo considers Pelé’s incredible legacy off the field. This article was originally written in Portuguese.

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