But I was wrong." Pele was the first to play on three World Cup winners, as Brazil's win secured the right to take the Jules Rimet Trophy home for good. In 1974, the player nicknamed the Black ...

Pele remains the youngest player in a World ... in-a-lifetime moment than a mere "first." The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to World Cup champions since the first tournament in 1930, was ...

Pele holds the trophy after Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final of the 1962 World Cup in Chile. Sadly he missed that game after being injured in only the second match of the tournament.

Despite boasting one of the greatest international records of all time, with a trophy cabinet that contains three World Cup ...

Wales were without the injured John Charles and they missed the 'Gentle Giant' as the Welsh lost 1-0 to the eventual champions as the great Pele scored his first international goal in Gothenburg en ...

Vinicius Junior is favourite to lift the Ballon d'Or in Paris on Monday. If he does, the Real Madrid star will join an elite ...

Widely regarded as one of the best footballers of all time, Pele is the only player to win the World Cup three times, lifting the trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970. In recent years, he battled a ...

Bobby Moore holding the World Cup trophy aloft at Wembley in July 1966 ... shirt had been kept in a bag alongside the Brazil jersey Pele swapped with her then husband during the 1970 World Cup.

“That whole moment was sportswashing distilled,” he says, having been chief football writer at the Independent since 2017.

Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA, via Shutterstock In 2018, at the age of 19, he and France lifted the World Cup trophy in Moscow, where Mbappé had become the first teenager since Pelé to score in the ...

The album features the eventual winners of the 1970 Mexico World Cup, Brazil A copy of the first ... featuring the Jules Rimet Trophy and the Moroccan Football Federation badge, have since been ...