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Movies, music and TV helped Pele to even more stardom

Brazilian soccer legend Edson Arantes Do Nascimiento better known as 'Pele'. (Courtesy/AP)

Whether or not Pele scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums.

He was also in the movies, notably in the World War II film "Victory," and was one of the stars of a Brazilian comedy that brought more than 3.6 million people to the theaters in the South American nation.

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