Pele's coffin leaves the pitch at Santos stadium before private burial

Record ID: 1705030

  • Title: Pele's coffin leaves the pitch at Santos stadium before private burial
  • Date: 3rd January 2023
  • Summary: SANTOS, BRAZIL (JANUARY 3, 2023) (REUTERS) PEOPLE STANDING AROUND COFFIN/PEOPLE CLAPPING (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE AERIAL VIEW OVER SANTOS'S VILA BELMIRO STADIUM UNIFORMED OFFICERS PICKING UP COFFIN AND WALKING/CROWD WATCHING PEOPLE STANDING UNDER CANOPY ON SOCCER PITCH/ BANNERS IN SEATING AREA WITH PICTURE OF PELE (MUTE) AERIAL VIEW OF COFFIN BEING MOVED ON VEHICLE/PEOPLE WALKING NEARBY COFFIN ON VEHICLE/UNIFORMED OFFICERS AND OTHERS WALKING (MUTE) AERIAL VIEW OF COFFIN ON VEHICLE WITH UNIFORMED OFFICERS WALKING (MUTE) AERIAL VIEW OF COFFIN ON VEHICLE/PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE STADIUM UNIFORMED OFFICERS CARRYING COFFIN OUT OF THE STADIUM
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2023 13:42
  • Keywords: Ecumenical Memorial Necropolis cemetery Funeral Pele Santos
  • Location: SANTOS, BRAZIL
  • City: SANTOS, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA001009903012023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The coffin of soccer legend Pele left the pitch at Santos's Vila Belmiro Stadium on Tuesday (January 3), before a private burial.
    Crowds standing near the coffin clapped as uniformed officers carried it to a vehicle, following a 24-hour wake.
    Fans gathered outside the Vila Belmiro stadium, where Pele started playing as a teenager.
    The coffin will pass through the streets of Santos, passing the neighbourhood where his 100-year-old mother lives, and ending at the Ecumenical Memorial Necropolis cemetery, where he will be buried in a private ceremony.
    Edson Arantes do Nascimento - Pele's given name - was born in 1940 in the small country town of Tres Coracoes, but moved to Santos in 1956 and lived there for most of his life.
    Pele died on Thursday (December 29) at the age of 82 after battling colon cancer.
    (Production: Sergio Queiroz, Leonardo Benassatto, Tom Newey, Jacqueline Clyne)
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