Pele's funeral: Thousands line streets of Santos as Brazil football legend is laid to rest

Thousands of mourners lined the streets arsenic Brazilian shot icon Pele was laid to remainder successful Santos, the metropolis of his erstwhile club.

People crowded the streets connected Tuesday arsenic his coffin was carried connected a occurrence motortruck to a backstage household funeral.

Pele - a three-time World Cup victor - died astatine the property of 82 connected 29 December.

Arguably the world's top ever footballer, helium had been receiving attraction for colon crab since 2021.

Brazil's authorities declared 3 days of nationalist mourning aft his death, and the country's caller president - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - travelled to Santos to wage his respects.

Covered with a Brazilian flag, Pele's coffin was carried connected a occurrence motortruck done the packed roads of fans.

The procession besides passed by the location wherever his 100-year-old mother, Celeste Arantes, inactive lives.

Santos FC said much than 230,000 radical had attended his 24-hour aftermath successful the Vila Belmiro stadium, wherever a dependable watercourse of mourners continued done the night.

The ceremonial cortege volition extremity astatine the larboard city's Memorial Cemetery, wherever a Catholic ceremonial work volition beryllium held earlier Pele is interred successful a 10-storey mausoleum that holds the Guinness World Record arsenic the tallest cemetery connected Earth.

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Thousands of fans gathered to spot Pele's coffin, which was placed connected a occurrence motortruck and carried done the streets of Santos

'He joined each of us' - fans wage tribute

BBC South America analogous Katy Watson successful Santos

Pele's coffin was paraded done Santos, fans accompanying the cortege chanting "Pele, 1,000 goals".

Hundreds of radical waved immense banners and were wearing the fig 10 garment helium made truthful famous.

This was a time of mourning for the antheral Brazilians telephone their King, but it was intelligibly a infinitesimal to observe him too.

There was joyousness and happiness connected the streets that Pele was - and volition ever beryllium - Brazil's biggest root of pride.

Deofilo de Freitas was archetypal successful the queue astatine the stadium connected Monday, but wanted different accidental to spot his idol earlier helium was laid to rest.

Deofilo de Freitas queued connected Monday to spot Pele, and saw the procession connected Tuesday to accidental his last goodbye

"Pele was the Pele of the people, helium joined each of us," helium said. "It'll beryllium hard to find idiosyncratic other similar him.

"In summation to being the champion subordinate successful the world, helium was a marvellous quality being."

Santos FC, wherever Pele spent the bulk of his nine career, tweeted: "Our eternal King Pele says goodbye successful Vila Belmiro, his home, with his people."

The coffin was escorted done heaving Santos streets connected a occurrence truck

Brazil's caller president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended Monday's memorial

Emotional fans paid their respects to Pele passim the procession

The metropolis of Santos said goodbye to its leader Pele, who played 656 competitory matches for the club

Fifa president Gianni Infantino attended the memorial connected Monday

Thousands of mourners from each astir the satellite gathered successful Santos