Goodbye to Pele on Monday.
For 24 hours, the coffin will be placed in the center circle of Santos’ Villa Belmero stadium.
On Tuesday, the procession will pass the home of Celeste’s 100-year-old mother.
Pele died on December 29 at the age of 82 after a long battle with cancer.
On Monday, the coffin was released from hospital in Sao Paulo to be placed in the middle of the field at Villa Belmero, where he played most of his career.
Heaps of flowers were placed outside the square and people lined up all night to say goodbye on the vigil.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to arrive over the next 24 hours.
Three big flags
Inside the arena, which seats 16,000 spectators, there are three large flags.
One has a picture of Pele in his famous jersey with the number 10 on the back, the second has the text “Long live the king” and the third with the text “Pelé is 82 years old”.
The procession will pass through the streets of Santos on Tuesday near the home of Pele Celeste’s 100-year-old mother.
Celeste is very ill and according to the media in Brazil, she does not know that her son has passed away.
Buried on the ninth floor
Pele will be buried in a private mausoleum in Santos, with only his family present.
According to his own desire, it will be placed on the ninth floor to honor Dondinho’s father’s shirt number and a view of the former home yard.
According to the family, Pele will “see his plan forever in eternity” from there.
There is information that the coffin will be golden in color and have engravings and engravings of Pele’s iconic images on the sides.
The Brazilian government declared three days of national mourning after Pele’s death.
