Pelé's coffin will occupy the ninth floor of a 14-storey super-cemetery after a burial parade that will stop outside his 100-year-old mother's house.
The three-time World Cup winner passed away on Thursday aged 82 after a long battle with bowel cancer.
Pelé will be housed in Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial, less than a kilometre away from home ground Vila Belmiro, where Pelé played almost his entire senior career for Sao Paulo state club Santos.Brazil's eminent football icon will lie-in-state in the centre circle of the Santos pitch for 24 hours, with thousands expected to visit the coffin.
It will then be paraded through the streets to Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial, stopping briefly at his bed-bound mother's home.
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