Pelé will rest where he made Brazil and the whole world dream for almost 20 years. The Santos club announced how the King’s funeral will take place in a press release published this Thursday evening, after the announcement of the legend’s death a few hours earlier in Sao Paulo. The funeral vigil will thus take place on Monday at the Urbano Caldeira stadium, the grounds of Santos FC, the team where the “King” has played almost his entire career. His remains will be buried the next day.
“The funeral wake of the greatest footballer of all time will take place at the Urbano Caldeira stadium, (in the district of) Vila Belmiro, where he amazed the world, explained in a press release the club which counted the legendary Brazilian in its ranks from 1956 to 1974. The body will leave Albert Einstein Hospital and go directly to the stadium in the early hours of Monday, January 2, and the coffin will be placed in the center of the field. The public vigil is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. »
The ceremony will then last 24 hours, “until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3, when the procession will wind through the streets of Santos, passing through Canal 6, where Pelé’s mother, Dona Celeste, lives, and then on to cemetery of the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, for the burial reserved for family members. »