Emotional crowds bid Brazil soccer legend Pele a final farewell on Tuesday lining the streets of Santos to watch his coffin taken to its final resting place from the city’s stadium where 230,000 mourners had filed past his open casket. | Reuters
Pele’s funeral procession had left the city’s Vila Belmiro stadium, home of Santos Football Club, on Tuesday morning. Pele played from 1956 to 1974 for the team, scoring more than 1,000 goals. During a 24-hour wake fans queued for hours to pay their respects, even overnight.
Pele’s sister Maria Lucia Nascimento, 78, watched in tears from a balcony and thanked the crowds in a brief TV interview. On the streets of Santos, the city of 430,000 where Pele lived for most of his life, some struggled to come to terms with his loss. “You can see that the whole city has stopped. The whole world stopped,” said mourner Ezequias Leonardo.
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