Pelé in the sport. Pelé was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the son of Fluminense footballer Dondinho (born João Ramos do Nascimento) and Celeste Arantes. He was the elder of two siblings. He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison. His parents decided to remove the "i" and call him "Edson", but there was a mistake on the birth certificate, leading many documents to show his name as "Edison", not "Edson", as he is called. He was originally nicknamed "Dico" by his family. He received the nickname "Pelé" during his
Alexandra do Nascimento two games. Since July 2011, she is married to Chilean international handballer, . Alexandra do Nascimento Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento (born 16 September 1981) is a Brazilian female handball player who plays for the Brazilian national team and for the Hungarian handball club Alba Fehérvár KC. She was born in 2012 in Limeira (São Paulo) but she soon moved to Espírito Santo where she grew up. She moved to Austria in 2004. In 2012, she was the first Brazilian handballer to be voted IHF World Player of the Year. In 2016, she was chosen for the third time to be