He turned professional when he was 16, and at 18 was signed as a goalie by Botafogo, one of the main Rio teams in Brazil’s premier league. Three years later, in between contracts, Braga spent ...

Brazil's 'Premier League' plan is a potential cash cow, but old squabbles could derail it all Tim Vickery, South America correspondent May 11, 2022, 02:00 PM ET Email ...

A video of soccer fans walking to the Oct. 5 Copa Libertadores semi-final between Palmeiras and Boca Juniors has been mislabeled online as showing a pro-Palestinian rally in France.

Soccer Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘the beautiful game,’ has died He was 82. Brazil's Pele is hoisted on the shoulders of his teammates after Brazil won the World Cup final against Italy ...

The American league system is very different than the Brazilian system. For starters, there are way more tiers. Brazil has Serie A-D, and the US has MLS, USL Championship, USL League One, NISA, and ...

Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of ...

Philippe Coutinho has completed a permanent move to Vasco da Gama from Aston Villa. The Premier League club announced Friday ...

Brazilian investment manager and broker XP on Thursday launched a fund to raise some 800 million reais ($162 million) to buy commercial rights of some soccer clubs from the country.

In 1975, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. Although 34 and past his prime, Pelé gave soccer a higher profile in North America. He led the Cosmos to the 1977 ...

Born in Brazil in 1940, Pelé started his career in the Brazilian club Santos FC . At 16 years old, Pelé became the top scorer in the league, and by 30 he had won three World Cup trophies.