Balanced News: Pelé, Brazilian soccer legend, dies at 82

São Paulo, Brazil – Brazilian soccer legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known by fans around the globe as Pelé, died on Thursday at the age of 82 surrounded by family in Albert Einstein Hospital, in the city of São Paulo. Born in the city of Três Corações, in the state of Minas Gerais, on October 23, 1940, Pelé began his incomparable career just 16 years later. On November 29 of this year he was admitted to Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo to reassess his cancer treatment and to treat a respiratory infection.