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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Honours


Brazil Santos
Friendly Club tournaments
United States New York Cosmos
Brazil Brazil
The tally of 32 official team trophies makes him the player with most career titles[citation needed]

Individual

  • Athlete of the Century, elected by world wide journalists, poll by French daily L'Equipe: 1981
  • South American Footballer of the Year: 1973
  • Athlete of the Century, by Reuters News Agency: 1999
  • Athlete of the Century, elected by International Olympic Committee: 1999
  • UNICEF Football Player of the Century: 1999
  • Football Player of the Century, elected by France Football's Golden Ball Winners : 1999
In December 2000, Pelé and Maradona shared the prize of FIFA Player of the Century by FIFA. The award was originally intended to be based upon votes in a web poll, but after it became apparent that it favoured Diego Maradona, many observers complained that the Internet nature of the poll would have meant a skewed demographic of younger fans who would have seen Maradona play, but not Pelé. FIFA then appointed a "Family of Football" committee of FIFA members to decide the winner of the award. The committee chose Pelé. Since Maradona was winning the Internet poll, however, it was decided he and Pelé should share the award.
A consensus of media and expert polls rank Pelé as the greatest footballer of all time.

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