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Cape Verde to name national stadium after Pele

Chris Danquah
Chris Danquah  - Digital Strategist || Online News Editor January 7, 2023
Updated 2023/01/07 at 6:36 PM
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According to the prime minister of Cape Verde, Pele will be honored with a new stadium name.

The 15,000-seat Estadio Nacional de Cabo Verde, which is located just outside of the country’s capital Praia, will serve as the Pele Stadium.

The declaration comes after Fifa President Gianna Infantino urged that each country name a stadium in honor of the late football legend Pele on December 29 while speaking at his memorial service in Brazil. On that day, Pele, 82, passed away.

“As a tribute and recognition to this figure that makes us all great, I manifest the intention of naming our national stadium as “Pele Stadium”, in an initiative that, I believe, will be followed by several countries around the world,” Ulisses Correira e Silva wrote on Facebook.

“With the physical disappearance of Edson Arantes de Nascimento, King Pele, who soon became a planetary figure, an icon of the masses showing that sport has the power to unite the world, it is now our wish to pay tribute to him,” added Mr Silva in a statement that stressed the importance of Pele to Portuguese-speaking countries like Cape Verde.

“Cape Verde and Brazil have a history and culture that go hand in hand, considering they are two sister countries, linked by language and very similar identities.

“Pele was and always will be a reference in Brazil, in our Portuguese-speaking countries and in the rest of the world, being an idol that links several generations.”

Over the course of a 21-year career, Pele is credited with scoring a world-record 1,281 goals in 1,363 games, earning him the title of Fifa’s Player of the Century in 2000. This total includes 77 goals in 92 games for his national team.

At Monday’s memorial to Pele in Santos, the city where he played club football, Infantino said that Fifa would be asking “every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele”.

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