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[140] [141] [142] Following his emergence at the 1958 World Cup he was nicknamed O Rei ("The King"). [143] Among his contemporaries, Dutch star Johan Cruyff stated, "Pelé was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic." [34] Brazil's 1970 World Cup-winning captain Carlos Alberto Torres opined: "His great secret was improvisation ...
Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura (三浦 知良, Miura Kazuyoshi, born 26 February 1967), nicknamed King Kazu, [2] is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Japan Football League club Atletico Suzuka, on loan from J2 League club Yokohama FC. [3] [4] [5] He is the world's oldest active player to play and score in a professional ...
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Football League with most clubs: +100 – Cape Verdean Football Championship [note 56] Shortest National Championship: 7 days – Greenlandic Football Championship [205] [206] Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [207] [208] [note 57]
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
After ESPN contacted Graceland about Elvis’s football history for an episode of “Peyton’s Places,” museum curators created an entire exhibit about the King’s football exploits.
Pelé scored 12 goals in 14 FIFA World Cup appearances spanning four separate World Cups. [1] As of the most recent edition, he is the only footballer to have won three World Cups [c] and is one of only five players, the others being Uwe Seeler, Miroslav Klose, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi, to have scored in four separate ones. [9]
Peter King reflects on his career covering the NFL, the history of Football Morning in America and what his future holds. ... The 10 most spectacular places around the world to visit in February.