Black and white screens flickered as a skinny 17-year-old, playing with imagination and verve, ran circles around seasoned veterans. By the end of that World Cup, the name Pele had shot across the ...

Sure, Pele was good with a football at 17, but could he throw three treble-20s at a red, green and black board from almost two-and-a-half metres away? Serena Williams won the US Open at 17 ...

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

He won a place in the Brazil squad for the 1958 World Cup at just 17 - becoming the ... Italy's Giovanni Trapattoni battles for the ball with Pele during an international friendly at Milan's ...

with Pele still the only player to have won three World Cups during his career, having done so in 1958, 1962 and 1970. That first tournament victory came when he was just 17, scoring twice in the ...