Pele’s hair is striking: fine, golden filaments of volcanic glass that shimmer like spider silk in the sunlight. Formed when lava is ejected explosively and rapidly stretched into thin strands, these ...

"If you would use the word perfect, Pele almost is there. He was the greatest soccer player in the history of this game," says former West German star Franz Beckenbauer on ESPN Classic's ...

In a friendly match in Colombia, he was expelled and when he was about to change in the dressing room, a leader came to tell him not to, that in the face of the indignation of the people they had ...