All ready for Pelé’s funeral at the funeral, whose body will be transported on Monday in a gold-plated coffin from São Paulo to the city where a player lived for 20 years for a club that bears his name, which is ‘Santos’ . , 70 kilometers away, and there they will leave the coffin in the center of a stadium called Vila Belmiro belonging to the club, to throw People had a last look at Pele, before his burial on Tuesday, in a cemetery described by the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest in the world.
The cemetery known internationally as Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, and its construction, which began in 1983, finished after 8 years, consists of 14 floors, its height is 108 meters, i.e. the height of an ordinary 32-story building , and includes 14,000 tombs, with cellars, utility rooms and a crematorium, according to Al-Arabiya.net read about it in the Brazilian media, some of which said it is “an ideal place for families who want to preserve their heritage in personal and private way,” and that Pelé recommended that his final resting place be on the ninth floor “because it overlooks the stadium directly, and because number 9 is important to him,” according to the website of local newspaper A Tribuna .
And the “black jewel” told the newspaper earlier this year that the best place “after leaving this world is the one I have chosen to rest in peace in that cemetery, for there is peace and spiritual calm in it.” “, adding that in the cemetery that foreigners also choose as a final resting place, and it will be the seat of his coffin, which was prepared a long time ago, “my friends and relatives rest there,” he said.
The number 9 is important to Pele
Pelé will lie in the highest cemetery in the world, next to two of his family members, who preceded him, namely his daughter, “Sandra”, who died at the age of 62, a victim of breast cancer in 2006 from which she suffered greatly, in addition to his brother, “Jayer,” who was 77 when he died of cancer in 2020. The prostate, as if his family is tied to the fate of the malignant disease, for Pele himself died last Thursday of colon cancer at the age aged 82.
As for the “king” who chose the ninth floor in particular, as the place for his grave in the cemetery, “because the number 9 is very important to him”. the age of 79, who was known as Dondinho, “when he was the heart of the attack in several clubs”. That’s why he played football, and he always wears the number 9 shirt,” according to what Pelé once said about him.
On the edge of the coffin is a golden statue of Pele, and the image on the left is his Syrian-Lebanese club membership card
And they expect the most poignant moments for those watching the funeral on television will be the casket’s march from the stadium to burial in the cemetery on Tuesday, its passage through the streets of the city of Santos and its arrival at the entrance to his home. mother of 100 years old, Celeste Arantes, who resides in the city visited and much desired by Pele, because there he spent his adolescence and youth and was a member of the most famous club in the city, which is the “Syrian-Lebanese Club”, active since its founding in 1952 as its most luxurious club.
