He begins shuffling yet again. And then he stops. "See this?" he asks. It's a black-and-white photo of Pele soaring for a header in a 1963 friendly against Portugal. The bottoms of his feet are ...

To Romario, the 1994 World Cup-winning Brazilian striker, Pele was “like a god ... Then they turned on their black-and-white television sets. They sat down to watch Brazil, perhaps for ...

A football original, Pele was revered, loved and copied, the focal point of a Brazil team arriving on stage just as coverage of football moved from black and white into colour. He became ...

Before that, for the vast majority of fans — especially outside Brazil — Pelé had only existed in black-and-white footage. The virtuoso displays that illuminated the 1958 World Cup ...

The elites were almost exclusively white, while the majority of the poor were Black, Indigenous, and mixed-race. Meanwhile, the government continued to encourage European immigration in order to ...

The Brazilian was able to serve this purpose, though he did so during a period when television – first black-and-white, then color – brought soccer directly into people’s living rooms.

It then shows legendary late Dutchman Johan Cruyff performing the "Cruyff turn" so famously named after him, before also featuring Pele using the same trick in black and white. In the video ...

That record is still alive since he left the black-and-white team in 1974. Messi had a shot at that record, but with his departure to PSG, the chances of him surpassing it are vanishing.

Pelé was Brazil's first modern Black national hero but rarely spoke about racism in a country where the rich and powerful tend to hail from the white minority. Opposing fans taunted Pelé with ...

He played before the era of football as a global business: half his career was in black and white and it took up to a month before Brazilians could see his exploits in Sweden in cinema newsreels.