WRAP: Pele's coffin is carried to Santos ahead of wake

Record ID: 1705013

  • Title: WRAP: Pele's coffin is carried to Santos ahead of wake
  • Date: 2nd January 2023
  • Summary: SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (JANUARY 2, 2023) (REUTERS) NIGHT SHOTS VARIOUS OF HEARSE CARRYING COFFIN WITH PELE'S BODY TO SANTOS FIREWORKS AND FLARES MARKING PASSING OF HEARSE SANTOS, BRAZIL (JANUARY 2, 2023) (REUTERS) NIGHT SHOTS (MUTE) DRONE VIEW OF PYROTECHNICS GOING OFF ON ROADSIDE AS CONVOY MAKES WAY TOWARD STADIUM (MUTE) DRONE VIEW OF HEARSE PULLING UP OUTSIDE STADIUM VARIOUS OF HEARSE ARRIVING 25, (MUTE) DRONE VIEW OF HEARSE BACKING INTO STADIUM ENTRANCE DOOR (MUTE) DRONE VIEW OF HEARSE PARKED IN STADIUM ENTRANCE / BILLBOARD ON STADIUM SHOWING TRIBUTE TO PELE (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) PRESIDENT OF TORCIDA JOVEM DOS SANTOS, COSMO DAMIAO, SAYING: “I saw homeless crying when the car (hearse) passed and applauding. Who wouldn’t applaud Pele, he is the greatest person in the world.” PELE’S FANS GATHERED OUTSIDE STADIUM
  • Embargoed: 16th January 2023 09:34
  • Keywords: Funeral Pele Santos Wake
  • Location: SAO PAULO, SANTOS AND BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • City: SAO PAULO, SANTOS AND BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Soccer,Sport,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA003990202012023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT IS A WRAP CONTAINING NO FRESH MATERIAL.
    Brazilian soccer star Pele’s coffin arrived at the coastal city of Santos, his hometown club, ahead of a massive wake at Vila Belmiro stadium, on Monday (January 2).
    The hearse left Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital, on Sunday, where Pele, died on Thursday (December 29).
    Drone footage showed fireworks being set off along the route as the convoy made its way to the stadium.
    Pele, whose given name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died aged 82 "due to multiple organ failures resulting from the progression of colon cancer associated with his previous medical condition," the hospital said in a statement.
    The coffin will be placed in the centre of the field at Santos's stadium for the wake.
    (Production, Tom Newey, Jacqueline Clyne)
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