The 43-year-old, a retired footballer himself, will serve the sentence for laundering money raised for drug trafficking, the BBC has reported.
Edinho was first arrested back in 2005 and has served a sentence for drug trafficking offences, in addition to having links with a notorious drug dealer in the city of Santos.
His old club Santos in the 1990s. Edinho, who currently works as a goalkeeping coach at Santos, reportedly says that he is a drug addict but denies the trafficking charges levelled against him. Brazilian media have not been able to reach Edinho, whose real name is Edson Cholbi do Nascimento. He is expected to appeal. Edinho is Pele’s third son from his first marriage and was just five when the family moved to New York with his father playing for the Cosmos.
He was the Santos goalkeeper in 1995 when the team reached the Brazilian league final, losing the title to Botafogo. In 2006, Pele went to visit his son in jail and said, “God willing, justice will be done. There is not a shred of evidence against my son.”
Pele won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and was acclaimed as the greatest footballer of his generation.
On 29 July 2011 it was reported that
Bobby Moore’s son dies aged 43 after alcohol battles…
The son of England’s World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore has been found dead in his flat at the age of 43.The death of Dean Moore – who described himself online as a ‘habitual drinker’ – is the latest tragedy to befall the Moore family after they lost Bobby to cancer aged only 51.
Last night Dean’s tearful daughter Poppy, 19, paid an emotional tribute to ‘the best man in my life’.
Bobby Moore’s son, Dean, pictured with his father and mother, Tina outside their home in 1970
“I know how you felt to lose your dad at such a young age and I know you would hate me to feel this way,” she said.
Paramedics were called to Dean’s home in Notting Hill, West London, at lunchtime on Wednesday after a family member became concerned about his welfare. Despite attempts to revive him, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are treating the father-of-one’s death as ‘unexplained’. Sources said foul play was not evident and his death could have been caused by a medical condition he suffered from. In the weeks before he died, Dean was still trying to overcome his addiction to alcohol. On his Facebook page, he wrote of how he had recently finished a second spell in rehab which lasted for five months, but said it was “hard to keep up good work”.
The 43-year-old was a chef and was known to be a keen drinker, though it is thought he had not touched a sip of alcohol for some time. In the modern era, the sons and daughters of talented footballers would be able to live off their father’s wealth for their whole lives. But because his father played before the era of multi-million pound contracts, Dean Moore had to look for work after leaving school. He moved into the catering trade and from 1997 he ran a pub opposite Chelsea Football Club’s Stamford Bridge ground in Fulham, south-west London.
Last night Poppy Moore told the Mail, “Daddy, I love you so, so much. I would do anything to be up there with you now. My heart has broken in two today. I know how proud you are of me as you always told me I am going to make you even prouder. My life has been turned upside down.” Dean’s mother Tina and sister Roberta were too distressed to talk about the latest early death to befall the Moore family. A source close to the family said. “Dean had a medical condition. It appears to be a tragic death at an early age from natural causes.”
Police are still awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination. Condolence messages were posted on tribute pages on the internet yesterday. One wrote: “Two family members that lived to no age at all. Sad times for the Moore family.”
Another said: “You’ll never meet anyone more West Ham than Deano. RIP my son, you will be sorely missed. God bless.” A third added: “He seemed a very nice lad, may he rest well and enjoy the catch-up with his dad.’
Bobby Moore, captain of England’s World Cup winning team in 1966, died from cancer in 1993. Dean, whose mother was Moore’s first wife Tina, was born two years after Moore lifted the World Cup for England for the only time in history. During a glittering career, Moore became one of the finest footballers of his generation, playing nearly 700 games for West Ham and Fulham, as well as at three clubs in the U.S., and making 108 appearances for his country, including 90 as captain.
Pele said Moore was ‘the greatest defender I ever played against’.
After hanging up his boots, a distinguished post-playing career in the game seemed inevitable. But the lucrative management jobs never arrived and he was abandoned by the game he loved. Like most of the other heroes of England’s 1966 World Cup victory, he seemed to be shunned by the Football Association. No favours were granted to members of the winning team, no ambassadorial roles handed out and clubs were not asked to help the stars get managerial or coaching opportunities. And in stark contrast to today’s footballers, Moore did not have huge savings from a multi-millionaire salary to fall back on. Instead, he set up a string of business ventures which had limited success.
He finally got his chance in football management in 1983 at Southend United, a lowly club in the third division. Sadly, this foray into management failed and he became a football pundit for an independent radio station, earning about £150 for a day’s shift. It was only when Moore died of cancer in 1993, that the footballing world realised they had lost a true great.
This was just another truly disgraceful cock-up by the English FA, for Bobby should have been handed the job, just like Beckenbauer in Germany and Cruyff in Holland and incredibly, even Maradona in Argentina, despite all of his off-field turbulence with drugs and heaven knows what?
The truth of the matter was that Dean, for some reason, was looked at as an outcast of the family, and this came from my son Allen who was due to meet Dean two days later. Together, my son and I were going to try to help him out as they would speak from time to time and Allen would always tell him how much I adored his father and how he helped me as a youngster. Bobby took me under his wing in 1970 and then again in 1972 before a match against Northern Ireland at Wembley. It was a little like my career, as Bobby congratulated me in the early morning before training telling me that I was playing that night after he had spoken to Alf. However, when Alf called all the players together before training began on that morning he read out the team I never heard my name and thought to myself. ‘I’m going deaf’ when I turned to Bobby who was embarrassed, and afterward apologized of which I said, ‘Bobby, you were being good to me by breaking me the news. I could not have asked for getting the news of anyone better than you, forget it mate that was Alf’s fault’.
From that day on and after my three year ban I have been very anti-England, wouldn’t you be? Anyhow, here is how my son Allen, who has suffered similar to Dean Moore saw it: It’s the day after the legendary Pele’s son has just got 33 years in prison for money laundering. Unfortunately some people don’t get away that lightly! Not dislike Edson Narantes Nasciamento’s son, the great Sir Robert Chelsea Moore’s son Dean, my friend only had 43 years!
I only speak of Dean now and again, and it’s against my better judgement to speak of him now as I feel I’m doing the one thing he trusted me not to do and that was to ever talk of him. But Dean if your up there reading this mate, I’m writing this for a reason, and it’s not to offend you or your father, my friend. My dad brought me up to speak of Mr Bobby Moore as God!
But to Dean his dad was actually God. It’s a tragedy what happened to my mate. He was let down by his nearest and allegedly dearest, which gave him his worst trait. TrustHe’d been betrayed by his own family. Two days before he sadly passed away he called me from Notting Hill Gate asking me to lend him a fiver to get him back to Princess Beatrice’s house. Can you believe it?
Sir Bobby Moore’s son needs a ‘Jacks’ to get back to his halfway hous! Not unlike me, the women In your life have the power, his sister and mum didn’t even allow him to grieve the death of his devoted dad, before taking his daughter off him. And this is where his trust in people had died too. All I can say is that it’s tough enough being born into living in the shadow of your dad being a legend, but it’s even harder being cheated by your own.
So I digress, Pele’s son?? Who???? Give me Sir Dean Moore any day. My only ‘thankfulness’ is that I know he’s now with the one and only person he truly, truly trusted, his Dad! Love you Dean, and your a World Cup winner too in my eyes mate x
Allen Hudson Junior
Bobby was also reponsible for my transfer from Arsenal to Seattle I am always grateful for his help, and I loved him dearly. The link, like Allen with Calum Best is a little uncanny in many ways, and because being friends with such ‘greats’ I find myself privileged. That is why when I write I get furious with those players today that are called “world class” by those morons on TV and in the tabloid press. At a time when the World Cup is just ariound the corner this is bitter news for Brazil, on top of the main stadium not being finished at the last count, but what do you expect from FIFA, UEFA and the FA and the likes of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini?
As Neil Dimaond sang, “Money talks, it can’t sing and dance but it can talk”, and that about sums up both Blatter and Platini…
I have a strong feeling this World Cup is going to become the most famous (or infamous) of all time, but for all the wrong reasons, money laundering, corruption and refereeing (bribery) and that gives you the chance to back Colombia to at least win their Group at even money, because if they don’t “murder” will also be added to that list?
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