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Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ has died

SAO PAULO (AP-RSS) — Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. The