Tuesday, January 3, 2022 - The funeral of legendary Brazilian footballer Pele is currently taking place in Santos, Brazil, with the footballer’s mother, Celeste, set 'to say goodbye' to him as she is still unaware of the three-time World Cup winner’s death. Pele’s mother, Celeste, will have an opportunity to say a final goodbye to…
The memorial dedicated to Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele, is a luxurious mausoleum where the remains of the Brazilian idol rest in a solid gold coffin on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. The tomb where O Rei was buried after his death at 83 from advanced colon cancer is on the first floor of the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica vertical cemetery,.
The legendary Brazilian footballer, who died of cancer on 29 December aged 82, had always denied that Sandra Regina - who passed away 17 years ago - was his child, but she and his other six kids are named in his will, and he met her sons, Octavio Felinto Neto and Gabriel Arantes do Nascimento, on December 28th in hospital, a day before he died