SANTOS: Brazilians bid a final farewell this week to football giant Pele, starting Monday with a 24-hour public wake at the stadium of his long-time team, Santos.
The oceanside home of the team nicknamed “Peixe” — “fish” in Portuguese — is expecting a huge influx of fans looking to honour the “King” of football, who died aged 82 on Thursday after a long battle with cancer. Stadium doors will open at 10:00am local time . The coffin bearing the remains of the only player to have won three World Cups will be displayed in the center of the field.
Elsewhere in the city, banners with Pele’s face decorate another monument erected in his likeness. “I loved the world with the ball at my feet,” read one sign. At the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, a giant poster with Pele’s image bears the word “eternal.” And at the inauguration on Sunday of Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the ceremony began with a minute’s silence in Pele’s memory.
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