Pelé’s fortune exceeds one hundred million dollars of net worth

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Skin, he reaped a great fortune that allowed him to live comfortably. After his death this Thursday at the age of 82, the three-time world champion with Brazil was the highest-paid athlete in the world during his golden age and leaves behind a net worth of more than one hundred million dollars.

This is how the portal has made it public Celebrity Net Worth, which recounts how the footballer, who claimed to have scored more than 1,000 goals throughout his career, invested most of his lucrative earnings in real estate.

Thus, O Rei acquired an impressive mansion in the Hamptons, New York, for 100,000 dollars, which he later sold in 2008 fully revalued to almost three million dollars.

In addition to the money from his activity as a soccer player in the Santos FC team and in the Brazilian soccer team, the striker continued to make cash after retiring from the pitch through his multiple advertising contracts.

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The soccer player expressed his determination in this regard whenever he was asked about his business activities: “I didn’t get rich from soccer like today’s players do. I earned money from advertising, when I stopped playing, but none from tobacco, alcohol, politics or religion”, he explained with dignity.

It has always been known that to be rich it is necessary not only to win; Also don’t spend. And in that Pelé was also quite smart, since he received a monthly pension in his native country since 2014, of almost three thousand reais, that is, about 552 euros in exchange. As the Brazilian player confessed at the time, “I pay half at the cinema and I don’t pay for public transportation. After the 2014 World Cup, I will be a full-fledged pensioner because by right I already am.”

To divide between seven children and a wife

one of his daughters, Smallwas in charge of giving the news of the death of Pelé with a brief and sad message on his Instagram profile, with a photo of the soccer star’s hands joined with those of the rest of his family: “All we are is thanks to you. We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.”

The soccer star had seven well-known children and was married up to three times. With Rosemeri Cholbi married in 1966. They were together 16 years. To the psychologist and singer Assiria Seixas Lemos He said ‘yes, I want’ in 1994, when he was 53 years old. That marriage lasted 14 years. With his third and last wife, the businesswoman Marcia Aoki56, married in 2016. This Thursday she has sadly become his widow.