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January 4, 2023

Funeral Held for Soccer Legend Pelé in Santos, Brazil
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In Brazil, mourners lined up for over a mile on Tuesday to pay respects
to soccer legend Pelé, who died last week at the age of 82. Pelé was
buried in the city of Santos in the world's tallest vertical cemetery,
which overlooks the stadium where Pelé first rose to fame. Brazil's new
president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke at Pelé's funeral Tuesday.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: "Pelé symbolizes everything, the
rise of the human species. Everything that we can perceive and want from
the rise of the human species was Pelé. He was a very young player who
gained an extraordinary protagonism, and the most fantastic thing is
that Pelé never tried to be something he wasn't. He was always a humble
citizen, and he was a person who spoke as an equal to everyone. In the
interviews, you realize that Pelé is an ordinary citizen and that he was
not carried away by his brilliance and apogee, but by the glory that the
whole world gave Pelé."



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