Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Cristiano Ronaldo were among those to contextualise Pele’s importance to the beautiful game.
THREE-TIME WORLD CUP winner PELE “transformed football into an art,” said current Brazil forward Neymar as he led the tributes to his country’s greatest sporting icon, who passed away on Thursday aged 82.
The king of football has left us but his legacy will never be forgotten. RIP KING. Posting pictures of himself together with the Brazilian icon, Argentina’s World Cup winner Lionel Messi wrote a shorter message, “Rest in peace, Pele” on his Instagram page. Manchester City and Norway striker Erling Haaland tweeted simply: “Everything you see any player doing, Pelé did it first. RIP.”Everything you see any player doing, Pelé did it first. RIP ⚽️🤴🏿 pic.twitter.com/SeW0z1hQTmFormer England World Cup winner Geoff Hurst hailed Pele as the “greatest of all time”.
Wembley Stadium in London, meanwhile, was this evening lit up in Brazilian colours in honour of the three-time World Cup winner.Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter called Pele the “greatest footballer in history” and described him as a man who “celebrated the game like no other”. From the world of politics, Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva paid tribute to one of his country’s national treasures, saying, “there was never another number 10 like him.”
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