Brazilians will pay their final respects to football icon Pelé with a 24-hour public wake, which begins on Monday at the Urbano Caldeira stadium, the home of his former club Santos.
Brazilians will pay their final respects to football great Pelé with a 24-hour public wake, which begins on Monday at the Urbano Caldeira Stadium, the home of his former football club Santos. On Tuesday, a funeral procession will then carry Pelé’s coffin through the streets of the city of Santos, including passing down the street where Pelé’s 100-year-old mother, Celeste Arantes, lives.
Fans had already started lining the streets in the early hours of Monday morning, many holding flags or banners with messages for ‘O Rei’ . “Pelé, you are eternal,” read one by the side of the highway. Inside Santos’ 16,000-seater stadium, a number of large banners had been placed throughout the stands, with one reading “long live The King.” For more than 60 years, the name Pelé has been synonymous with football.
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