{"id":27616,"date":"2021-08-24T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27616"},"modified":"2021-08-24T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T08:03:12","slug":"pele-brings-sporting-stars-together-for-charity-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/24\/pele-brings-sporting-stars-together-for-charity-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pele brings sporting stars together for charity auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"leadtext\"><strong>Want a Brazil jersey owned by Pele? An All Blacks shirt signed by Dan Carter? A New York Yankees photo autographed by Derek Jeter? David Beckham\u2019s AC Milan shirt?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Those items, plus others from Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe, are among 229 that will be up for sale next month at an auction organised by Pele for the foundation he created in 2018 to help underprivileged children.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian, the only player to claim three World Cup winner\u2019s medals and a man often called the greatest footballer of all time, said all monies raised will help Brazil&#8217;s fight against and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>So far 575,000 people have died in Brazil from COVID-19, the second-highest death toll in the world after the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPele is such a legend, he\u2019s an icon and other sports stars look up to Pele,\u201d Martin Nolan, Executive Director and CFO of Beverly Hills-based Julien\u2019s Auctions, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he was at home in his bubble he had the time to focus on this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a Brazil jersey owned by Pele? An All Blacks shirt signed by Dan Carter? A New York Yankees photo autographed by Derek Jeter? David Beckham&rsquo;s AC Milan shirt? Those items, plus others from Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe, are among 229 that will be up for sale next month at an auction organised by Pele for the foundation he created in 2018 to help underprivileged children. The Brazilian, the only player to claim three World Cup winner&rsquo;s medals and a man often called the greatest footballer of all time,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27618,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions\/27618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}