It's fitting that future legend Pele had a nickname bestowed on him as a child with exactly the same number of letters as the word "goal."
Journalist Hiroyuki Kagawa remembers Pele "feeling pleased that the popularity of soccer, Brazil's number one sport, was surging in Japan."
Diego Maradona was the last player to be left off the Argentina national squad for the 1978 FIFA World Cup, which was held in his...
