Africa-Press – Cape verde. FIFA President Gianni Infantino thanked Cape Verde for naming the country’s main stadium, the National Stadium, after Pelé.
On his Instagram page, Infantino thanked the Prime Minister for his intention.
“Thank you very much Cape Verde! I would like to thank the Prime Minister, Ulisses Silva, the Minister of Sports, Carlos do Canto, and the Cabo Verdean Football Federation, in the person of its president, Mário Semedo, for the fact that Cape Verde announced its intention to give the name of Pelé to the National Stadium”, can be read in the note left by Gianni Infantino on the social network.
pioneering gesture
For Infantino, this pioneering gesture dignifies the country and honors the memory of Pelé, adding that he hopes that “more stadiums and places where football is played, all over the world, may also come to be associated with this global homage”.
Guinea-Bissau has also expressed interest in naming a local stadium after Pelé.
Pelé died last week at the age of 82, at the Israeli Albert Einstein hospital, in São Paulo, following the failure of multiple organs, a result of the progression of colon cancer.
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