The stadium the place Brazilian soccer nice Pelé performed a number of the greatest matches of his profession will even maintain his funeral on Monday and Tuesday.
Santos, the membership the place Pelé performed in Brazil, stated in an announcement the general public will have the ability to pay their ultimate respects at Vila Belmiro Stadium, exterior Sao Paulo.
Pelé, whose full identify was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died Thursday after an extended battle with most cancers. He was 82.
Santos stated the coffin carrying the three-time World Cup champion will go away Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo early Monday morning and will probably be positioned within the heart circle of the sphere.
Visitation will begin Monday at 10 a.m. and end the following day on the similar time.
Pelé’s casket will probably be carried via the streets of Santos and can cross in entrance of the house of his 100-year-old mom, Celeste. Latest reviews in Brazilian media say Pelé’s mom can’t go away her mattress and isn’t lucid.
The burial will happen on the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, a vertical cemetery in Santos. Solely household will attend.
Pelé has a house in Santos, the place he lived most of his life. He spent his final years within the metropolis of Guarujá.
Pelé 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.
Final week, the hospital stated in an announcement his most cancers had superior.
Pelé led Brazil to World Cup victory in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and stays one of many staff’s all-time main scorers with 77 targets. Neymar tied Pelé’s report throughout this 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar.