Maria Lucia, Pele’s sister, said that on December 21, she last saw the ex-Seleção player.

Lucia visited Pele at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where the legendary football player was hospitalized.

“I visited him on December 21. He was very calm, we talked a little, but I already understood what he feels, he knows that he will leave.

He was very faithful, he said: Everything is in the hands of the Lord. And I told him: it’s true, he knows when it’s time,” he admitted Mary Luciain the Brazilian press, quoted by News.ro.

Pele’s mother does not know that he died

Celeste, Pele’s 100-year-old mother, does not know that her son is dead.

“He doesn’t know anything. She is in her own world. He opens his eyes when I mention him, but he doesn’t understand what I’m saying,” said Maria Lucia, 78 years old.

The funeral procession with Pele’s coffin will pass by the house where the legendary football player’s mother lives on Tuesday.

The legendary Pele died on December 29, after spending a month at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo.

According to the death certificate published by the Brazilian press, Pele died of kidney and heart failure, bronchopneumonia and colon adenocarcinoma.

On Monday morning, the coffin with Pele’s body arrived at the Vila Belmiro stadium in Santos, where people can say their goodbyes before the funeral on Tuesday.

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