A spokesman for Pele insists his words were "distorted" which led to claims about drugs involving Manchester City star Robinho.

Pele's advisor went into detail about the exact nature of the misunderstanding.

"There's nothing to this, Pele never said that Robinho had problems with drugs," he told Terra. "His answer was distorted.

"Pele was asked about problems in football, and said that the problems are few compared to other sports . He said that in football only Maradona, Ronaldo and Robinho had really had problems, but he never talked about drugs at any moment."