The funeral of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Peeled, began the Monday with the exhibition of the coffin in which reposan the rests of the Brazilian legend in the Stadium Vila Belmiro of Sao Paulo, house of Santos FC, where thousands of fanatical visited the field of the 'Peixe' to give the last goodbye to the maximum idol of the white group and of the Brazilian selection tricampeona of the world in 1958, 1962 and 1970.
The '10' died the past Thursday 29 December to the 82 years of age as a result of the cancer in the colon that suffered, after a month hospitalizado in which his health deteriorated with the step of the days, opting the specialists for giving him palliative cares in front of the advance of the illness. His body reposa from the morning of the Monday in the stadium of the Saints, giving access to the public happened the 10 of the morning.
Beside the coffin in the main carp found his familiar and diverse personalities of the world-wide football headed by the president of the FIFA, Gianni Infantino and his homologous of the Confederation Sudamericana of Football, the Paraguayan Alejandro Domínguez, in addition to the president of the Brazilian Confederation of Football (CBF), Edinaldo Rodrigues.. Edinho, son of Peeled, and the ex player Zé Roberto loaded the coffin until the main carp.
The passionate chapel will remain opened to the public in general until the Tuesday 3 January to the 10 of the morning. Andl body of 'Or Rei' was moved directly from the Hospital Albert Einstein of Sao Paulo, where died the Thursday, until the Stadium Vila Belmiro in a courtship fúnebre escorted by the firemen and the local police. Another willing carp to few metres of the main has the book of visitors, where diverse personalities have devoted his words of farewell to the Brazilian legend.
Like this it will be the burial of Peeled this Tuesday
Once it conclude the funeral in Vila Belmiro, the rests of Peeled will visit the streets of Santos, including the neighbourhood in which it lives his mother, Celeste Arantes, to the one who to his 10 years still no has informed him the decease of his son. Later, the '10' will be sepultado in the cemetery Memorial Necropolis Ecuménica in a private ceremony to which only will attend his familiar the Tuesday in the afternoon.