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Burial Dates For Football Legend, Pele Announced

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Burial Dates For Football Legend, Pele Announced
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The burial dates for the late football legend and Brazillian icon, Pele have been announced.

According to a statement on Thursday by his former club, Santos, a wake will be held on Monday for Pele and his body will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his Santos home in Brazil.

He would get a funeral procession through the city’s streets before a private burial ceremony.

According to the statement, “The wake for the greatest footballer of all time will be held in Urbano Caldeira Stadium, better known as the Vila Belmiro, where he enchanted the world.”

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It is understood that his body would be taken in a street procession from the Albert Einstein Hospital to Estádio Urbano Caldeira in Vila Belmiro Monday morning, and the coffin will be placed in the centre of the pitch. The wake is expected to begin at 10am.

The ceremony, according to a Daily Mail UK report, will continue until 10am on Tuesday, January 3, when the parade will take place through the streets of Santos before heading to the Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial for the private burial reserved for family members.

Naija News recalls Pele died on Thursday 29th December at the age of 82 after battling colon cancer for several weeks.

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The football icon remains the only player to have won the World Cup three times, first as a 17-year-old in 1958, again in Chile four years later, and then the iconic third win in Mexico in 1970.

He scored over 1,000 goals during his footballing career.