Pele’s sister said her mother did not know about the world football legend’s death. She was not informed that her son had died of cancer.
Pele’s sister looks after her 100-year-old mother, Celeste, and hasn’t been told that her son, the famous footballer, has died after suffering from colon cancer.
And press reports have indicated that Pele’s mother’s home is on the road that funeral organizers had planned before the football legend was buried.
Pele’s sister Maria said in an interview, “We talk to each other, but she doesn’t know the situation. She’s in her own world.”
He added that he “opens his eyes when I mention his name and says we’re going to pray for him, but he doesn’t really understand what I’m saying.”
Pele died at the age of 82 at the Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo on December 28, after a long battle with colon cancer.
Pele’s mother celebrated her 100th birthday last month and Pele congratulated her on his Instagram account.
Pele will be buried on Tuesday in a 14-story cemetery in downtown Santos, the place where he played most of his matches, and will be transferred from the hospital where he died to Santos’ Villa Belmero stadium, so fans can say farewell to the legend.
