The Latest Breaking News from Pele

Messi fever has gripped the United States from Miami to LA, from pitch invaders to Hollywood stars, writes Lawrence Ostlere. But can Major League Soccer seize the moment?

Neymar surpassed the iconic Brazil striker Pele’s national goalscoring record in his country’s 5-1 rout of Bolivia in qualification for the 2026 World Cup.

NEW DELHI: Renowned as the maestro of the football field during the 1970s, Mohammed Habib, whose extraordinary skills led him to score against Pele's New York Cosmos while donning the Mohun Bagan jersey, passed away on Tuesday.

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Ary Borges has come a long way in a short time, accomplishing something that neither Pele nor Ronaldinho could do and earning high accolades from Brazilian superstar colleague Marta in the process.

MIAMI — It was all so bombastically overblown, you half-expected Lionel Messi to materialize from above the stadium and levitate slowly earthward in a flowing robe toward the adoring crowd — not with trickery or on the ropes of a parachute but because he is Messi, super-being among mortals, magician,…

MIAMI — Long before Lionel Messi was a larger-than-life soccer icon with 468 million Instagram followers, before he became one of the world’s richest athletes and immortalized on giant murals from Buenos Aires to Barcelona to Calcutta to Miami, he was the tiniest boy on the field at Grandoli, the…

Chelsea are bolstering their squad with plenty of promising attackers

Emiliano Martinez, the celebrated goalkeeper who played a crucial role in Argentina's FIFA World Cup win in Qatar, inaugurated the Pele-Maradona-Sobers Gate at the iconic Mohun Bagan club. Football enthusiasts flocked to the venue, eager to catch a glimpse of Martinez, known for his remarkable saves.