Apple pays tribute to Pelé on its Brazilian site
Apple updated his brazilian site to pay tribute to Pelé, who passed away this week. The home page shows a soccer ball with a crown. We can also see the dates 1940 and 2022, which correspond to the year of birth and the year of death of the famous footballer.
Apple has paid other tributes in the past. There have been some for Queen Elizabeth II, John Lewis, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs and more.
Pelé died on December 29 at age 82 after battling cancer for more than a year, his family announced. “We love you endlessly, rest in peace”, wrote his daughter Kely Nascimento on Instagram, a publication illustrated with a photo of the joined hands of family members resting on that of the former footballer at the Albert-Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, where he had been admitted he a month ago. The hospital said the death was caused by multiple organ failure.
The only footballer to have won the World Cup three times (1958, 1962 and 1970), Pelé, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was elected athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. The announcement of his death came as a shock to all football fans, 11 days after the end of the World Cup in Qatar, and just over two years after that of Diego Maradona.
Throughout the tournament, the one who was nicknamed O Rei (the king) had published from the room of the Albert-Einstein hospital where he had admitted on November 29 messages on social networks, encouraging Brazil or congratulating Messi on his crowned with Argentina against France.
