A secret daughter from an affair with his cleaner: Pele's dark side is revealed - voila! sport

An article by Sharon Davidovich about the death of Pele (Sport1)

In Brazil they are still mourning the death of Pele, the country's greatest footballer and perhaps the world's greatest of all time.

But meanwhile behind the scenes details about his private life are revealed and it turns out that he had a "secret daughter" named Sandra Regina.

According to reports now being revealed, Pele disowned Sandra and left her heartbroken until her untimely death at the age of just 17.

But the day before he died at the age of 82, Pele asked to meet with Sandra's two sons to share the inheritance with them when he recognized that Sandra was one of his seven heir children.

In "Mirror" they claim that Gabriel, one of Sandra's two sons, testified that it was his mother's dream that Pele would recognize her.

"I talked to my uncles and they told me that Pele wanted to meet with us. We were very excited about it, this was her opportunity we were waiting for," said Gabriel, "every family has fights and struggles. Our family is no different, but there are moments when union and love are more important than anything Other. We are really happy."

Two affairs on the side and a daughter he disowned.

Pele (Photo: Reuters)

Sandra, who died in 2006 of cancer, was born out of Pele's affair with his cleaner, Anises Machado who fought for years to get him to admit he was Sandra's father but he refused to admit everything, even after a DNA test proved otherwise.

But Sandra received permission to bear Pele's last name, Nascimento, after a five-year legal battle.

After Pela's death, it turned out that his inheritance is around 16 million dollars and this fortune is supposed to be divided between his three children from the first marriage, two children from the second marriage and two more children he has from two affairs on the side, Anesis is one of them.

• sport

• world football

Tags

• Fella

• Brazil