Brazil creates King Pele Day to honor football icon.

Brazil football legend Pele will be honored in his home country by a commemorative day baptised “King Pele Day”, reported Tuesday’s edition of the government gazette.

Considered by many the greatest footballer of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento — better known as Pele — won three World Cups with Brazil and scored more than 1,000 goals over his storied career.