Tributes pour in for Pelé, dead at 82, as his daughter shares touching final photo with the three-time World Cup winner.
It's thought the footballer - believed by many to be the greatest ever to play the 'beautiful game' - scored 1,281 goals in his illustrious playing career.
The global superstar won three World Cups with the Brazilian national team between 1958 and 1970, and remains the only player ever to do so. Pelé had been moved to end-of-life care at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paolo after his body stopped responding to chemotherapy to treat bowel cancer.Fashion designer and punk movement leader Vivienne Westwood dies aged 81Shortly after, Pelé's daughter Kely Nascimento, posted an heartbreaking final photo of him holding hands with family as he lay in hospital bed.
"In 2005 I received the BBC award directly from the king’s hands, and to this day it’s one of my proudest moments,' he wrote. "I was so so happy to have him in Manchester where we had such a nice chat and nice time, and even more at a Hublot event where we really had a good laugh. Rest in peace King Pelé and thinking of his loved ones.Paris St-Germain and France superstar Kylian Mbappe, who became the youngest man since Pelé to net in a World Cup final in 2018, also paid his respects, writing on Twitter: "The king of football has left us but his legacy will never be forgotten. RIP KING.
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