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What is the real name of the retired footballer everyone knows as Pele?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Pele's real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. His family nicknamed him Dico. Pele is unsure of where he got the name Pele from. He is still unsure today but to make an estimated guess to where it came from he believes one of the village boys may have called him that one day and it just stuck.

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