Pele tributes to be paid across SPFL fixtures this weekend

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Clubs and supporters can pay their respects to Brazil legend Pele prior to games at the weekend and on Monday.It was announced yesterday that the football legend had passed away, aged 82.

He was the only player ever to win three World Cups.The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has written to clubs, suggesting a minute's applause or other appropriate gesture to be made before matches in the next few days.Clyde are at Queen of the South in League One on Saturday afternoon and Albion Rovers host Dumbarton in League Two, giving the first opportunity to pay tribute.Those games are followed on Monday by Motherwell travelling to Livingston in the Premiership, Hamilton Accies hosting Raith Rovers in the Championship, and Airdrie entertaining Edinburgh in League One.SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: "Scottish football fans appreciate skill, class and achievement, and no player in the game better typified those qualities than Pele."Arguments will rage forever about who is the greatest player but, for his sheer impact on the worldwide game and his achievements in winning three World Cups, it’s doubtful we will ever see his like again."To be able to look out over the national stadium and realise that this global icon graced the Hampden turf during a friendly with Scotland in 1966 is a humbling experience."Everyone who appreciates all that is good about football - from his incomparable goalscoring prowess, his outrageous skill and his simple, overwhelming joy at playing the game - will recognise just what gap the great man’s passing has left.”Follow Lanarkshire Live Sport onTwitter via@LanLiveSport, like us onFacebookor find us onInstagramfor the latest sports news, pictures and video.