CNN —
A funeral procession that will take soccer star Pelé to his final resting place began on Tuesday.
The procession started at Urbano Caldeira Stadium, the home stadium of Pelé’s former club Santos, and his coffin is carried through the streets of the city of Santos, including the street where Pelé’s 100-year-old mother, Celeste Arantes, lives.
Continue to the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica Cemetery, where a private funeral for family members will take place.
That The three-time world champion died on Thursday at the age of 82 from multiple organ failure resulting from the progression of colon cancer.
Since then, tributes have poured in from around the world and people of all ages flocked to his 24-hour public vigil, which began Monday at Santos’ 16,000-strong stadium, popularly known as “Vila Belmiro.”
According to Santos, more than 230,000 people attended the wake, many of whom wore Brazil’s iconic yellow jersey.
The doors to the stadium closed with thousands of mourners still waiting in line and people were turned away, according to CNN teams at the scene.
Thousands lined the streets, waving flags and applauding as the Brazilian’s coffin passed.
Pelé’s sister Lucia was seen tearfully waving to crowds gathered outside her mother’s home from a balcony.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva arrived Tuesday morning with “very heavily” reinforced police security to accommodate the president’s presence, Santos told CNN.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino traveled to Brazil on Monday to pay his respects.
“Pelé is eternal,” Infantino told reporters, according to Portal. “FIFA will certainly honor the ‘King’ as he deserves.
“We have asked all the world’s football governing bodies to observe a minute’s silence before every game and will also ask them, 211 countries, to name a stadium after Pele. Future generations must know and remember who Pelé was.”
The name Pelé has been associated with football for more than 60 years. He has competed in four World Cups and is the only player in history to have won three, but his legacy extends far beyond his trophies and notable goalscoring.
“I was born to play football just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint,” Pelé famously said.
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history and Brazil held a three-day national mourning after his death.