The farewell to Pelé that began this Monday is moving. A procession that has a long route whose caravan will pass in front of the house of the mother of the missing crack. But the most important point of the farewell is given at the Santos stadium, where Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the main figure of the farewell to the remains of Brazil’s most emblematic footballing figure.
Extremely moved, Lula went to the coffin and wept. The new president of Brazil, who has assumed the presidential office for the third time, is accompanied by his wife Janja and an important presidential entourage.
The Brazilian president arrived at the Santos stadium around 9, after landing by helicopter at the nearby Portuguesa Santista field.
After the massive farewell to the Brazilian star, Pelé will be buried this Tuesday in a niche in a vertical cemetery located about 700 meters from the Vila Belmiro stadium, where he played more than 200 games for Santos.
Two decades ago, the former footballer acquired a niche in the Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial, a cemetery that sits in a tower that looks like a residential building and which holds a Guinness Book of World Records recognizing it as the tallest cemetery in the world .
Pelé’s coffin will be deposited in a personalized mausoleum located on the first floor of the cemetery, which could be open for visits in the future, according to the newspaper A Tribuna.
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