Pele’s funeral to be held Monday, Tuesday at club team Santos

The stadium the place Brazil soccer nice Pele performed a number of the greatest matches of his profession may also maintain his funeral on Monday and Tuesday.

Santos, the club the place Pele performed in Brazil, stated in an announcement the general public will be in a position to pay their last respects at Vila Belmiro Stadium within the state of Sao Paulo.

Pele, whose full title was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died Thursday after an extended battle with most cancers. He was 82.

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The authorities of President Jair Bolsonaro, who leaves workplace on Sunday, declared three days of mourning, and stated in an announcement that Pele was “a great citizen and patriot, raising the name of Brazil wherever he went.”

Bolsonaro’s successor, President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, wrote on Twitter that “few Brazilians carried the name of our country as far as he did.”

Santos stated the coffin carrying the three-time World Cup champion will depart Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo early Monday morning and can be positioned within the heart circle of the sphere.

Visitation will begin Monday at 10 a.m. and end the subsequent day at the identical time.

Pele’s casket will be carried via the streets of Santos and can cross in entrance of the house of his 100-year-old mom, Celeste. Recent studies in Brazilian media say Pele’s mom can not depart her mattress and isn’t lucid.

The burial will happen at the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica, a vertical cemetery in Santos. Only household will attend.

Pele has a house in Santos, the place he lived most of his life, and spent his final years within the metropolis of Guaruja.

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Pele had a colon tumor eliminated in September 2021. Neither his household nor the hospital have stated whether or not it had unfold to different organs. He returned to the Albert Einstein hospital on Nov. 29 with COVID-19 and a respiratory an infection.

Last week, the hospital stated in an announcement his most cancers had superior.

Pele led Brazil to World Cup victory in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and stays one of many team’s all-time main scorers with 77 targets. Neymar tied Pele’s document throughout this 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar.

Information from Reuters and the Associated Press was used on this story.