Football mourns its King.
And Brazil, its most illustrious son.
An icon, an idol that for decades, from Rio to São Paulo, from Brasilia to Recife, as on all the other continents, has aroused admiration, not a form of adoration.
His death drains all over the planet waves of emotion and effusions, tributes rain down by the hundreds of millions.
Tears that don't taste like unreason.
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