Does anybody out there remember the New York Cosmos, a professional soccer team in New York? Pelé, the 72-year-old Brazilian great, does. With Pelé looking on, the revived soccer team announced a deal ...

New York’s soccer landscape has gotten crowded, with New York City FC joining the Red Bulls in MLS and the NASL Cosmos fighting for their own foothold. Cosmos greats Pele and Franz Beckenbauer told ...

He’d won three World Cups, scored goals galore and become a global icon, but Pelé wasn’t quite done yet, so off he went to the US and helped transform the sport of soccer in North America. The ...

The death of Pele has brought about an extraordinary outpouring of memories for those of us lucky enough to have played with him or against him. In my case, always on the other side from one another.

I was still wet behind the ears and years when I spoke a flagrant lie that assigned me to be with Pele as he traveled North America during his final competitive year. It was March 1977. I was just a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Pele will be spectating, not playing this time, when the franchises that helped suggest that soccer truly had potential in this country will renew acquaintances. He's eager for ...

Pelé watched the broadcast, too, saw Luis Suarez of Barcelona dribble twice between the legs of Paris St.-Germain defender David Luiz, scoring two gaudy, Champions League goals. And while there is now ...

The New York Cosmos will kick off their 2014 home season in a huge way – Pele, the club’s honorary president and still the most famous soccer player ever, will join the team for its first home game on ...

While most soccer fans are enjoying the World Cup, probably only the aficionados among them will remember when Brazilian superstar Pelé took his place as part of a short-lived soccer team in the ...