Ariel Albaez | January 11, 2023
The name of soccer idol Pelé became the most searched word in the last week and the person who set trends on Google and YouTube worldwide, after his death on December 29.
Questions like how many World Cups did Pele win? And when did Pele retire? They set a trend, were some of the searches on the life of the best player in the history of world football, according to search engine records.
“Why was he called Pelé Pelé”, how many world cups did Pelé win? When did Pele retire? How many goals did Pele score? Who did Pele play for? How many Ballon d’Ors does Pele have?
Two of Pelé’s most searched videos on YouTube were in Spanish with “El último gol de Pelé” and “El último gol de Pelé con Brasil” among the trending videos.
Videos about Pele’s most searched goals on YouTube, all time, around the world. Goal in the 1958 World Cup, Pelé’s last goal, Pelé’s last goal with Brazil [búsqueda en español]Pelé’s Chilean kick goal, Pelé’s 1000th goal.
“Rip king” and “pele king of football” are top searches over the past week, worldwide, as is “madre de pele” [búsqueda en español] rose +1,750%, “how old is the mother of pele” [búsquedas en español]according to the statistics of the popular Google search engine.
On October 23, 2020, Google prepared a special surprise for the 80th birthday of “O Rei” in which they changed the Goooooooogle at the bottom of the search page to Goooooal (in English) or Gooooooool (depending on the language setting). .
This surprise or “Easter Egg” returned to commemorate Pelé. When users click on the tenth ‘o’ (commemorating Pele’s jersey number), the ‘o’ will turn into a kick scoring a goal. The bicycle kick (or kick as it is popularly known) was made famous by Pelé.
