{"id":232784,"date":"2022-12-30T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T08:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=232784"},"modified":"2022-12-30T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T08:15:14","slug":"football-god-pele-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/football-god-pele-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Football God Pele is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pele, the Brazil footballing legend and three-time World Cup winner, has died at the age of 82. He was widely considered to be football&#8217;s first global superstar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pele had been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumor in September 2021. He had been hospitalized since November with multiple ailments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, football continues to tell its story, as always, in an enthralling way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;What a gift it was to watch this spectacle of the future of our sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazilian players had during a quarter-final in Qatar, unfurled a massive banner on the pitch with an image of the soccer great during his 1970 World Cup win. It simply read: &#8220;Pele!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pele, the Brazil footballing legend and three-time World Cup winner, has died at the age of 82. He was widely considered to be football&#8217;s first global superstar. Pele had been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumor in September 2021. He had been hospitalized since November with multiple ailments. Today, football continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[77642,48333,110324],"class_list":["post-232784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-pele"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pele.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}