It all started in the backwoods of Brazil, where a young boy nicknamed ... Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Pele's father was a local professional soccer player who held the distinction of scoring ...

where Pele stills holds demi-god status, two years after dying at the age of 82. Brazilian scouts now regularly scour Africa for promising young players, and have so far found them in Angola ...

This is because Pele picked players still alive today - with the emotional exception of Marc Vivien Foe, the Manchester City and Cameroon player who collapsed and died during a match last year.

World football’s governing body Fifa named him as player ... The image of Pele in a bright, yellow Brazil jersey, with the No 10 stamped on the back, remains alive with soccer fans everywhere.