the coffin of Pelewho died last Thursday at the age of 82, arrived this Tuesday at the cemetery of the city of Saints where the three-time world champion with Brazil He will be buried in a private ceremony.
Pelé will occupy a niche in a mausoleum in the cemetery Ecumenical Necropolis Memorialwhich in the future may be visited by soccer fans, sources from the cemetery confirmed to EFE.
The coffin was unloaded of the fire truck in which he made the funeral procession and carried on the shoulders of eight police cadets Militarydressed in gala, to the interior of the cemetery.
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The arrival at the cemetery put an end to the funeral procession that toured the main avenues of the Brazilian city for four hours, escorted by a crowd of fans of the Saints who sang incessantly to say goodbye to the “king” of football with honors.
The most emotional moment of the funeral procession was when the fire truck carrying the mortal remains of the legendary forward passed in front of the house of the mother of the Brazilian star, Celeste Aranteswhich in 2022 turned one hundred years old.
In that place, family and friends of Pelé saw in front of their eyes the coffin of ‘O Rei’ from the balcony of the Arantes residence, located on Channel 6 in Santos, where hundreds of people gathered.
Santos’ residents occupied both sides of the canal to honor their greatest idol and offer condolences to the family with songs from the club where Pelé spent most of his sports career.
Before the funeral procession, a funeral chapel was set up that was open to the public for 24 hours at the Vila Belmiro stadium, where more than 230,000 people went to say goodbye to him, according to Santos’ calculations.
Pelé died on December 29 in a private hospital in Sao Paulo, as a result of multi-organ failure resulting from colon cancer that was diagnosed in 2021.
