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Movies, music and TV helped Pelé to even more stardom
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FILE - Brazilian soccer legend Edson Arantes Do Nascimiento better known as 'Pele', gestures during a photocall of the movie 'Pele', in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. 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 in Sao Paulo on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. He was 82. - photo by AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File
SAO PAULO (AP) — Whether or not Pelé scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums. He was also in the movies, notably in the World War II film “Victory,” and was one of the stars of a Brazilian comedy that brought more than 3.6 million people to the theaters in the South American nation. Pelé, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died Thursday with cancer at a hospital in Sao Paulo.