Pele, Brazilian soccer legend, dies at 82 1

Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three international Cups and became the game's first international icon,1

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has died at the age of 82. “Everything we are is because of you

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her daughter, Kely Nascimento, wrote in an Instagram post, under a photo of family

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members approaching Pelé. “We like you infinitely. Rest in peace." Pelé entered a São Paulo hospita

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late November with a respiratory infection and complications associated with colon cancer.

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Last week, the sanitarium said his health had worsened as most of his cancers progressed.

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He died Thursday of multiple organ failure due to the progression of colon cancer, according to an announcemen

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nt from the Albert Einstein Hospital. For more than 60 years, the name Pelé has been synonymous with soccer.

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