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Pope Francis called the late Brazilian genius Pele “a man with a very big heart”.
Zico was famously called ‘White Pele’ during his playing days.
The Portuguese great thinks he’s better than Lionel Messi, Pele and Maradona.
Football transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano has said Neymar is headed back to Santos FC.
Rather than scoff at these practices as superstitions aimed at courting the super natural, it will be more prudent to place them in the category of routines, the absence of which carry the capacity for adverse outcomes.
Hamrin helped Sweden reach the 1958 World Cup final with four goals in the tournament, and was the last surviving player from the final, which they lost 5-2 to Pele's Brazil.
He won four World Cups for Brazil as either player or coach, including the 1970 side considered by many to be the best ever.
Messi, holding a replica of the World Cup trophy, stood beside the life-size statue at an unveiling ceremony at the South American Football Federation headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, before the Copa Libertadores draw on Monday.
In the early hours of Monday, his body arrived under fireworks in the city of about 430,000 people from Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein Hospital.
Here's a review of the best and low points in the world of sports in the past 12 months.
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