Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Huge crowds turned up to state farewell to Pele as his casket made its method through the streets of Santos By Katy Watson BBC South America reporter, Santos If Monday’s wake for Brazilian football legend Pele was a day of reflection, Tuesday’s funeralservice cortege was one of carnivalesque percentages. The 82-year-old, who numerous regarded as the world’s finest football gamer, passedaway on 29 December. His casket gothere in Santos on Monday, where thousands of mourners came to pay their appreciates at the ground of his previous club – some even queued overnight. On Tuesday, advocates’ club Torcida Jovem collected outdoors the Urbano Caldeira arena ahead of the coffin leaving. Fans waved substantial black and white banners, the colours of Santos Football Club. Many used the number 10 t-shirt that Pele made so well-known. “Only Pele, 1,000 objectives,” they consistently shouted as individuals beat drums and danced in the street. His body was then accompanied for 7 kilometres through the streets of Santos while helicopters flew overhead. His casket was brought on a fire engine, as is standard in authorities parades. It tookatrip along the sea front and past Pele’s mom’s home – she turned 100 last year. There, a relative asked for a minute’s silence
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