After the inauguration of the brand new president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Latin American nation bids farewell to one of the best participant within the historical past of world soccer with all honors. The funeral chapel of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé, will stay open for twenty-four hours on the pitch of the Santos stadium, within the Vila Belmiro neighborhood of Sao Paulo, the place the centennial mom of the three-time world champion nonetheless lives.
The funeral procession arrived on the Vila Belmiro Stadium at daybreak escorted by the police from the Albert Einstein Hospital, the place he died after greater than a yr preventing colon most cancers. The world soccer legend could have a large farewell.
This Tuesday, O Rei will probably be buried within the area of interest that his household has within the Memorial of the Ecumenical Necropolis of Sao Paulo with some delay in order to not detract from the inauguration ceremony of Lula da Silva, who is anticipated to attend the wake. The funeral procession that may move by way of the Channel 6 space, the place Pelé’s mom lives, Celeste Arantes, who’s 100 years outdated, earlier than heading to the cemetery, the place he will probably be buried in a personal ceremony, reserved for members of the family.