—>
Infantino attends football legend Pele's funeral

AFTER THE FUNERAL OF 'O REI'

The worldwide tribute to Pelé that Infantino asks all the federations

Published:3/01/2023 - 13:36h

Updated:3/01/2023 - 13:36h

Gianni Infantino, who was present at the massive wake for Pelé, has called on all the federations in the world to name one of their stadiums after Pelé as a tribute to his legacy

Calendar of FC Barcelona

The world of the football has cried the game of Edson Arantes do Nascimento 'Peeled', one of the greater figures in the history of the football with a multitudinous funeral to the that have assisted several authorities of the balompié to world-wide level; between them, the president of the FIFA, Gianni Infantino. After giving him the last goodbye to the thrice champion of the world, the director of the body rector of the balompié in the planet has launched a surprising proposal.

The Swiss has considered that each national federation to world-wide level honour to the Brazilian star baptising with his name to one of his sportive enclosures like homage to the legacy of the Brazilian legend: "we go Them to ask to all the countries of the world that appoint a stadium with the name of Peeled. I think that the youngsters of the whole world, all the generations, have to remember to Peeled and the joy that has given him to the football".

In his opinion, I Peeled it has to be inmortalizado with a big stadium that carry his name. Also it has asked to save a minute of silence in all the stadiums: "Therefore, I think that the most important has to be a stadium where play , where mark goals, and that the boys, in twenty, thirty or fifty years, when they mark goals to the Stadium Peeled, in any country of the world, and that ask who was Peeled, as it was a grandísimo of the football that has done us thrill. We have asked to all the federations of the world that save a minute of silence in each party, in the whole world".

The legacy of Peeled

Infantino Has valued the historical contribution of the star, that has contributed to the growth that has consolidated the popularity of the to scale global football: "I Peeled it is eternal. I peeled it is a world-wide icon of the football. I peeled it did a lot of first things in the football that the 99 % only can dream in doing and the another 1 % did it after Peeled. Therefore we are here with an enormous sadness, but also with a joy, the joy of Peeled. The smile of Peeled".

Likewise, it has indicated that the figure of 'Or Rei' has trascended the fact in the field of game, carrying joy to million people decades after having abandoned the professional practice of the deport king: "I Peeled I think that it has had the quality and the luck to do something that very few people in the world can do. Touch the heart of the people. There are not words. It has given us to all a big emotion and have to remember it for that.

Today highlights

Next match of FC Barcelona

La Liga | Jornada 15
FC Barcelona
UD Las Palmas

FC Barcelona - UD Las Palmas

Saturday, 30 of November of 2024 14:00h
Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companys
Buy tickets
Calendar FC Barcelona