Farewell to Pele

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Pele Immortal who will die one day Edson and I hope he became a good enough person to deserve to go to heaven.” Doubling between legend Pelegreatest football player of all time and Brazilian citizen Edson Arantes doing the Nascimentowill mark the funeral rites that the hero himself promotes in the third person. ‘O Rei’ died in a hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday82 years old, due to the consequences of colon cancer.

Aware of the lack of respect for height The national and cultural symbol embodied in Brazil and the crown with whom he had walked for sixty years in any corner of the planet, Edson and Pelé talked and agreed that when they said goodbye, it would be very local in the city of Santos on the São Paulo coast. It is also the epicenter of club Santos FC, which has become the legendary symbol of well-played football.


A tribute to Pelé at Comebol headquarters. AFP

Pele’s clear wish was: Say goodbye to Vila Belmiro, where it all started when I was 15 He comes from Baurú (the city in the interior of Sao Paulo). An old stadium that will undergo a structural reform with a limited capacity of 16,000 people, which has nothing to do with the modern coliseums built for the 2014 World Cup, but radiates the authenticity of the best-played football in Brazil. the greatest strength of world football.

image as brand

In life, his image, which became a brand before the existence of marketing, has eclipsed heads of state, the Hollywood ‘star system’ or any global figure. At his death, with a planetary effect, this Friday, for example, he had his picture featured on the front page of any newspaper sold in any London kiosk. He aligned politicians like the UN, NASA and so on. Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron or Vladimir Putin offering their condolences.




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Pelé’s amazing career in photos
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His funeral failed to schedule against the mandate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who later returned to the Palácio do Planalto for three legislatures to rebuild the country from the scorched land left behind by China. bolsonaroScheduled for day 1.

The do Nascimento family, united like never before in the patriarch’s final hours, the funeral was requested to be postponed to next Monday, he also asked Santos to withdraw the number 10 forever.


Front pages of Brazilian newspapers this Friday. / AGENCIES agencies

Accompanied by Military Police agents, The royal coffin will descend from 80km early Monday morning. Between the Albert Einstein Israel Hospital in the south of Sao Paulo and Vila Belmiro, where it will be placed with a golden sarcophagus in the central circle. For 24 hours, ‘torcedors’ from all teams will have the opportunity to request.

existence neymarWhat motivated Pele in 2011 When he gave Santos his third Copa Libertadores and almost all contemporary and later ‘craques’ who were or aspire to one day be the best on the planet but never questioned who the king of kings was. Brazilian or not, no one else has managed to reach the individual milestone that has left three world champion stars stamped on their chest.

Funeral rites

To pay its final tribute to the football bureaucracy Santos, where Pelé has never distanced himself, both locally, regionally (like Conmebol president, Paraguayan Alejandro Domínguez, who aspires to lead world football) and global (like FIFA boss Gianni Infantino).

On Tuesday, it will be a funeral procession through the streets of the city, the gateway to thousands of European immigrantsPassing by the house of Pelé’s mother, Dona Celeste, who is 100 years into the day the World Cup started in Qatar.

Edson and Pelé had tied everything together for two decades. The burial will be at the Ecumenical Necropolis Monument because it “does not look like a cemetery and conveys spiritual peace and tranquility.” The construction entered the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest vertical cemetery in the world.. On the ninth floor, there will be ‘O Rei’ with a view of Vila Belmiro as a tribute to the trick used by his father Dondinho.

Pele Immortal who will die one day Edson and I hope he became a good enough person to deserve to go to heaven.” Doubling between legend Pelegreatest football player of all time and Brazilian citizen Edson Arantes doing the Nascimentowill mark the funeral rites that the hero himself promotes in the third person. ‘O Rei’ died in a hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday82 years old, due to the consequences of colon cancer.

Aware of the lack of respect for height The national and cultural symbol embodied in Brazil and the crown with whom he had walked for sixty years in any corner of the planet, Edson and Pelé talked and agreed that when they said goodbye, it would be very local in the city of Santos on the São Paulo coast. It is also the epicenter of club Santos FC, which has become the legendary symbol of well-played football.


A tribute to Pelé at Comebol headquarters. AFP

Pele’s clear wish was: Say goodbye to Vila Belmiro, where it all started when I was 15 He comes from Baurú (the city in the interior of Sao Paulo). A former stadium that will undergo structural reform with a limited capacity of 16,000 spectators, which has nothing to do with the modern coliseums built for the 2014 World Cup, but radiates the authenticity of well-played football that has made Brazil the biggest power in world football.

image as brand

In life, his image, which became a brand before the existence of marketing, has eclipsed heads of state, the Hollywood ‘star system’ or any global figure. At his death, with a planetary effect, this Friday, for example, he had his picture featured on the front page of any newspaper sold in any London kiosk. He aligned politicians like the UN, NASA and so on. Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron or Vladimir Putin offering their condolences.




27

Pelé’s amazing career in photos
Press / Agencies

His funeral failed to schedule against the mandate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who later returned to the Palácio do Planalto for three legislatures to rebuild the country from the scorched land left behind by China. bolsonaroScheduled for day 1.

The do Nascimento family, united like never before in the patriarch’s final hours, the funeral was requested to be postponed to next Monday, he also asked Santos to withdraw the number 10 forever.


Front pages of Brazilian newspapers this Friday. / AGENCIES agencies

Accompanied by Military Police agents, The royal coffin will descend from 80km early Monday morning. Between the Albert Einstein Israel Hospital in the south of Sao Paulo and Vila Belmiro, where it will be placed with a golden sarcophagus in the central circle. For 24 hours, ‘torcedors’ from all teams will have the opportunity to request.

existence neymarWhat motivated Pele in 2011 When he gave Santos his third Copa Libertadores and almost all contemporary and later ‘craques’ who were or aspire to one day be the best on the planet but never questioned who the king of kings was. Brazilian or not, no one else has managed to reach the individual milestone that has left three world champion stars stamped on their chest.

Funeral rites

To pay its final tribute to the football bureaucracy Santos, where Pelé has never distanced himself, both locally, regionally (like Conmebol president, Paraguayan Alejandro Domínguez, who aspires to lead world football) and global (like FIFA boss Gianni Infantino).

On Tuesday, it will be a funeral procession through the streets of the city, the gateway to thousands of European immigrantsPassing by the house of Pelé’s mother, Dona Celeste, who is 100 years into the day the World Cup started in Qatar.

Edson and Pelé had tied everything together for two decades. The burial will be at the Ecumenical Necropolis Monument because it “does not look like a cemetery and conveys spiritual peace and tranquility.” The construction entered the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest vertical cemetery in the world.. On the ninth floor, there will be ‘O Rei’ with a view of Vila Belmiro as a tribute to the trick used by his father Dondinho.

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