About Pelé
Pelé (1940-2022), born as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was a Brazilian professional footballer widely regarded to be the greatest player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics. The same year when France Football asked their former Ballon d’Or winners to choose the Football Player of the Century, they selected Pelé. In 1999, he was elected Athlete of the Century by the IOC, and Time named him in their list of 100 most influential people of the twentieth century. In 2013 he received the FIFA Ballon d’Or Prix d’Honneur in recognition of his career and achievements as a global icon of football.
About Paul Mendez
Paul Mendez has been a performing member of two theatre companies and worked as a voice actor in audiobooks. As a writer, he has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement and the Brixton Review of Books. Rainbow Milk is his debut novel. He was born and raised in the Black Country, an area of the West Midlands county in England. He now lives in London and is studying for an MA degree in Black British writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.