⚽ Framed Autographed/Signed Pelé Brazil Soccer Futbol 16x20 Photo with Muhammad Ali Beckett BAS Auto — The Hand-Signed, Beckett BAS-Authenticated Framed 16x20 Photograph Featuring the Authenticated Signatures of Two of the Greatest Athletes in the History of Human Sport, the Three-Time FIFA World Cup Champion From Três Corações, Brazil and the Three-Time Heavyweight Boxing Champion From Louisville, Kentucky, Captured Together in the Image That Connects the Greatest Footballer and the Greatest Boxer in a Single, Unforgettable Collector's Piece

⚽ The Pelé and Muhammad Ali Autographed Framed 16x20 Photograph is a hand-signed, Beckett BAS-authenticated piece bearing the authenticated signatures of Edson Arantes do Nascimento — Pelé — and Muhammad Ali, the two athletes who occupy the summit of the argument for the greatest to ever compete in their respective sports, and whose names together on a single Beckett BAS-authenticated piece create the kind of signed memorabilia encounter that the collecting world may not see again. Beckett BAS authentication confirms the genuine hand signatures of both athletes through the third-party examination process that connects the certificate of authenticity and the Beckett hologram directly to this specific framed photograph, providing the documentation standard that the signed sports memorabilia market demands for a piece of this magnitude to carry its complete and unimpeachable collectible standing. A framed 16x20 piece bearing the authenticated signatures of Pelé and Muhammad Ali is not simply autographed sports memorabilia — it is the intersection of two entire eras of athletic greatness, two continents, two sports, and two legacies that the twentieth century will never be able to separate from its understanding of what athletic genius looks like at its absolute peak.

⚽ Edson Arantes do Nascimento — Pelé — was born October 23, 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He passed away on December 29, 2022, in São Paulo, Brazil, leaving behind a legacy that the world of football — the sport played on every continent, in every culture, in every social stratum on earth — will build its historical identity around for as long as the game is played. Pelé won three FIFA World Cup championships with the Brazilian national team: in 1958 in Sweden, when he was seventeen years old and already the most electric talent in international football; in 1962 in Chile; and in 1970 in Mexico, when the Brazil side that many consider the greatest international football team in history was led by Pelé at the height of his powers into a World Cup tournament performance that remains the defining argument for international football supremacy in the sport's history. He played his club career at Santos FC, the São Paulo state club whose success in the 1960s was inseparable from Pelé's presence, and ended his professional career at the New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League — bringing the sport to American audiences who experienced Pelé not as a historical figure but as a living, playing, performing athlete. When Pelé signed this photograph, he was signing as the only footballer whose name the entire world knows without needing a last name, without needing a position, without needing a context.

⚽ Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. He passed away on June 3, 2016, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He won the Olympic gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Rome Olympics as an eighteen-year-old, then turned professional and began the ascent to heavyweight boxing's summit that would make him one of the most famous human beings on earth — a distinction he held not just as an athlete but as a cultural and political figure whose refusal of the Vietnam draft, whose conversion to Islam, whose verbal creativity and theatrical showmanship, and whose absolute supremacy in the ring made him the single athlete whose story transcended sport entirely and became part of the American century's political and cultural history. Three times Ali held the heavyweight championship of the world. He defeated Sonny Liston twice. He fought Joe Frazier in the Fight of the Century, the Thrilla in Manila, and the third great chapter of their rivalry. He faced George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire, in one of the most celebrated sporting events of the twentieth century. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” — Ali's self-description became the defining line of sports poetry in an era that produced many candidates for the title. Condition: NOS.

⚽ Pelé. Edson Arantes do Nascimento. Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Santos FC. New York Cosmos. Three-Time FIFA World Cup Champion (1958, 1962, 1970). Muhammad Ali. Cassius Clay. Louisville, Kentucky. Three-Time Heavyweight Champion. 1960 Olympic Gold Medalist. Framed 16x20 Soccer Football Photo. Both Hand Signed. Beckett BAS Authenticated. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.