IT is a final resting place fit for “The King”: six months after the death of the man widely considered the greatest footballer of all time, Brazil opened Pele’s gilded, football-turfed tomb to the public yesterday.
Pele, who died on December 29 at age 82 after a battle with cancer, was buried at the Ecumenical Memorial Cemetery in Santos, Brazil. It is a high-rise, 14-storey mausoleum that holds the Guinness world record for the tallest cemetery on Earth.