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When and where will Pelé's funeral and wake be? The details we know about the last goodbye to the King of football

2023-01-02T06:16:03.217Z


A public vigil for Pelé will be held this Monday at the Urbano Caldeira stadium, popularly known as Vila Belmiro, home of the Santos soccer club, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, according to a statement from Santos FC. | Sports | CNN


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(CNN Spanish) --

A public vigil for Pelé will be held this Monday at the Urbano Caldeira stadium, popularly known as Vila Belmiro, headquarters of the Santos soccer club, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, according to a statement from Santos FC.


According to information from the club, there will be a one-day public vigil and then there will be a funeral for the relatives.

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In the early hours of this Monday, January 2, Pelé's body will be transferred from the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo to the Santos stadium.

Pelé's coffin will be placed in the center of the pitch, where the late soccer legend began his career.

Eternal.

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– Santos FC (@SantosFC) December 29, 2022

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Those who wish to attend the wake will be able to enter the stadium starting at 10 am [8 am ET] to say goodbye to the "King of Soccer," the club statement said.

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The wake in Vila Belmiro will continue until Tuesday, January 3 at 10 am [8 am ET].

Then, a funeral procession will carry Pelé's body through the streets of the city of Santos, even passing through the street where Pelé's mother lives, Celeste Arantes, 100 years old.

The procession will continue its procession to Pelé's final resting place, the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica cemetery in Santos, where a private funeral will be held, reserved for family members.

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Pelé was born in 1940 in a precarious area of ​​the state of Minas Gerais.

There he discovered soccer at a very early age, and his progression was so fast that he made his debut with the Santos first team when he was only 15 years old.

A year later, he had already put on the shirt of the Brazilian team.

Pelé was still a teenager when he first left his name in World Cup history.

That was in Sweden 1958.

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Pele

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