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"Pelé" — the nickname of one of soccer's greatest players — has long been used as a synonym for greatness. Now, a Brazilian dictionary is making that meaning official with a new entry.

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”,…

Whether or not Pelé scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums. He was also in the movies, notably in the World…

Pelé, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, has died at the age of 82.

Pele redefined what was possible on the pitch

Brazilian soccer great Pelé took part in movies, music and TV while also being a star on the field

From the soccer legend’s first World Cup win to his role as an ambassador for the 2014 tournament in Brazil, Pelé captivated the sports world for decades.

Football legend Pele passed away surrounded by his loving family at the age of 82, but in the years before his death he admitted hating his famous moniker

Pelé, the soccer player who rose from an impoverished Brazilian slum to become the most famous and, for a time, the best-paid athlete in the world during a spectacular career that produced more World Cup titles and more breathtaking moments than any other, has died at the age of 82,…