Where Pele never went short of coffee (6)

I believe the answer is:

santos

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'where pele never' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'went short of coffee' is the wordplay.
'went' becomes 'sang' (singing is a kind of going).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'of coffee' becomes 'tos' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sang' with its final letter taken away is 'san'.
'san'+'tos'='SANTOS'

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