It’s the most asked question in soccer, probably the most asked question in all of sports: who’s the greatest of all time? It’s something that has been debated among friends and foes from here to Papua New Guinea. However, when this debate occurs in soccer, ultimately the debate boils down to one name: Edson Arantes do Nascimento. You know him as simply Pelé.
Born in the Minas Gerais state in Brazil and raised in Bauru, São Paulo, Pelé earned his nickname as a schoolkid when it was rumored that he tried to pronounce the name of his favorite player, goalkeeper Bilé of Vasco da Gama, and kept messing it up.