In an honour to mourn the Brazilian football Legend Pelé,The Brazil President has declared a three-day national holiday following his announcement made by President Jair Bolsonaro, who would be ending his term in office on Sunday.
He made a generous remark about the footballer in his statement.“Pele was a great citizen and patriot, raising the name of Brazil wherever he went,” he said.
The president-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reacted to this via his Twitter account that “few Brazilians carried the name of our country as far as he did”. 
Since his death, there have been a lot of tributes from across the worlds of different fields. Also , Santos football club have announced the burial arrangements for Pele.
The club, in a statement signed Thursday, said the wake will be held on Monday, January 2, by 10 am, and his body will be laid to rest on Tuesday, January 3, at his Santos home, where he enchanted the world.“The wake for the greatest footballer of all time will be held in Urbano Caldeira Stadium, better known as the Vila Belmiro, where he enchanted the world,” the club disclosed.
Pele is expected to get a funeral procession through the city’s streets before a private burial ceremony.According to the club, Pele will be taken from the Albert Einstein Hospital to Estádio Urbano Caldeira in Vila Belmiro Monday morning, and the coffin will be placed in the centre of the pitch.Those who want to pay their last respect to the ‘football god’ will enter through two gates and separate from politicians and the authorities.
The ceremony will continue until 10 am on Tuesday, January 3, when the parade will take place through the streets of Santos.It will pass through Canal 6, where Pele’s 100-year-old mother, Celeste, lives, before heading to the Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial for the private burial reserved for family members.
