‘Pele is eternal’: Neymar leads tributes to Brazil legend
‘Pele is eternal’: Neymar leads tributes to Brazil legend
Neymar led the tributes to Pele after the Brazil legend’s death on Thursday as the Paris Saint Germain star said his iconic compatriot had “transformed football into an art”.
Pele passed away aged 82 after suffering “multiple organ failure” following a long battle with cancer and the football world was quick to salute arguably the sport’s greatest ever player.
Nicknamed “O Rei” (The King), Pele scored more than 1,000 goals before retiring in 1977.
Brazil forward Neymar hailed Pele, a three-time World Cup winner, in a social media post alongside two pictures of himself with the legend.“Before Pele, ‘10’ was just a number,” the heir to Pele’s famed shirt number wrote on Instagram.“But that beautiful sentence is incomplete. I would say that before Pele, football was just a sport. “He transformed football into an art, into entertainment... Football and Brazil gained status thanks to the King. He has gone, but his magic will remain. Pele is ETERNAL!”Read full story on www.sportsdesk.com.mt