Pelé
Pelé in 2014, photo by Celso Pupo/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Place of Birth: Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Date of Birth: 23 October, 1940
Ethnicity: African-Brazilian
Pelé is a Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as the player of all time. He played as a forward.
Pelé is the son of footballer Dondinho (João Ramos do Nascimento) and Celeste Arantes. He was named Edson after American inventor Thomas Edison.
Pelé is married to Marcia Aoki. She is a Japanese-Brazilian importer of medical equipment. He has seven children, including three with his former wife Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi, and two with his former wife, psychologist and gospel singer Assíria Lemos Seixas.
Pelé’s maternal grandfather was named Jorge Lino Arantes (the son of Custódio Arantes and Jacinta).
Pele’s maternal grandmother was Maria Naves (the daughter of Jeremia Ferreira Naves and Maria da Conceição).
Source: Genealogy of Pelé (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
It is very interesting, because here in Brazil there are not many dark blacks, because here there are more mixed people, the Portuguese brought a lot of people from Europe and there they mixed with Africans and Indigenous, very african but i see brazilian in he because maybe indigenous or portuguese but dont no
He is the son of Dondinho (João Ramos do Nascimento) and Celeste Arantes.
Source: http://www.geni.com/people/Edson-Arantes-do-Nascimento/6000000016681139458
possible the best futbol player EVER, by the way
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He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time. Pelé was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison.
No pic wow. Well, Pele is as black and Kinky haired as Omar Epps. Yes, he’s from Brazil but may black people are. The problem is when you throw Brazil, Panama, Cuba, Venenzuela, Columbia and other Carribean and South American countries behind Afro-, people start looking for JLo types and not Zoe Saldana types. Again, places are not races people.
Yes, and one more thing here has more mixed race people than dark blacks