In 1975, Pelé decided to emerge from retirement following a 19-year career with Brazilian giants Santos to play for the famed New York Cosmos team in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. The ...
This is because Pele picked players still alive today - with the emotional exception of Marc Vivien Foe, the Manchester City and Cameroon player who collapsed and died during a match last year.
At the age of 14, one of football’s most notorious wonderkids became the highest paid player in Major League Soccer before becoming ... christened the ‘new Pele’ by the unrelenting hype ...