Pelé’s rise to fame, career as Buhari, Nigerians bid farewell to football legend
Thursday’s death of football legend Pelé has expected elicited reactions across the football world. Pelé was born and raised in the favelas of Tres Coracoes in Minas Gerais, Edson Arantes do Nascimento – he would become known as Pele at school, apparently because of the way he mispronounced the name of his favorite footballer, Bile – grew up in poverty …