As Pele bows out, let's revisit the time when Pelemania gripped India

He was the one footballer people who never watched a game of football knew and loved. Brand Pele is immortal

Dondinho and Celeste Arantes knew the importance of a name. Growing up in abject poverty in Três Corações, Brazil was hard, and a name was all a person had. Electricity arrived in Três Corações, in 1940, just a few weeks before the birth of their first child, a boy. They decided to name him after the man credited with inventing the light bulb, Thomas Edison. They didn’t literally name him ‘Thomas Edison’ but instead thought laterally and named the child Edson (full name: Edson Arantes do Nascimento). Over time, this name fell into disuse, and later turned into the answer