Brazilians bid a final farewell this week to football giant Pele, starting on Monday with a 24-hour public wake.
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The coffin bearing the remains of the only player to have won three World Cups will be displayed in the centre of the field. The parade will pass the house of Pele's mother, 100-year-old Celeste Arantes, who is unaware that her world-famous son has died. And at the inauguration on Sunday of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the ceremony began with a minute's silence in Pele's memory.
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