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October 13, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
January 28, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
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December 28, 2015	Peer review	Reviewed
November 18, 2016	Good article nominee	Not listed
July 30, 2017	Good article nominee	Listed
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Deborah Ross (2021-02-27). "Contains nothing you couldn't get from Wikipedia or YouTube: Netflix's Pelé reviewed". The Spectator. Retrieved 2021-02-28. The grapefruit, the stuffed sock, are just the kind of vivid details you want, but I read about those on Wikipedia.

Fake news

Pele just have 730 goals messi and ronaldo have more then him stop fake news 213.55.233.171 (talk) 22:40, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is correct. His claim to have scored a thousand goals is unsubstantiated and actually contradicted by the statistics provided in the article.

The claim is generally regarded as false, and was effectively a PR stunt. This fake fact shouldn't be on the main page. 163.171.0.4 (talk) 09:39, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

There’s an obvious grammatical error in the Club Career section - so obvious it seems like it wasn’t proofread - but of course it’s locked. Like what