{"id":28345,"date":"2022-12-29T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28345"},"modified":"2022-12-29T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:42:33","slug":"pele-soccer-superstar-and-brazilian-national-treasure-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/29\/pele-soccer-superstar-and-brazilian-national-treasure-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Pel\u00e9 soccer superstar and Brazilian \u2018national treasure\u2019 dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pel\u00e9, the Brazilian soccer legend widely hailed as &#8220;O Rei do Futebol,&#8221; the king of his sport, the only man to win the World Cup three times, died Thursday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tariqpanja\/status\/1608536620071849986?s=20&amp;t=Inkl1G9RsZl4xcEULihB4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at a hospital in Brazil<\/a>. He was 82.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SOCCER-PELE.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28346\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His death has\u00a0sent the entire soccer world \u2014 and specifically Brazil, the nation who\u2019d nurtured and worshiped him \u2014 into a state of mourning. It was as if a national treasure had been lost forever, because, in fact, Pel\u00e9 was one. The Brazilian government made that official declaration at the height of his powers. It kept him at his Brazilian club, Santos, where he ultimately scored most of his 1,281 goals \u2014 a still-unsurpassed, albeit disputed, a world record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of his 21-year professional career, Pel\u00e9 had become an international icon, perhaps sport\u2019s first truly global superstar. His late-career stint in New York even helped popularize soccer in the United States. But he was, first and foremost, Brazil\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pel\u00e9, the Brazilian soccer legend widely hailed as &#8220;O Rei do Futebol,&#8221; the king of his sport, the only man to win the World Cup three times, died Thursday&nbsp;at a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[4149],"class_list":["post-28345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-pele-soccer-superstar-and-brazilian-national-treasure-dies-at-82"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}