BREAKING: Football legend Pele has died at the age of 82.
The Brazil icon, regarded as one of the best players ever to play the game and a winner of three World Cups, had been battling cancer for a number of years.
He spent his last days surrounded by his family who remained by his bedside over the Christmas period. An international level, Pele was an iconic figure of the game in the 1950s and 1960s and remains the only player to have won three World Cups, scoring 77 goals in 91 appearances for the national team.
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