When there are no more, there are still some.
After the World Cup with 48 teams, the Club World Cup with 32 clubs, here is another great idea from Gianni Infantino.
FIFA will ask all its member countries to name a stadium in the name of Pelé, announced Monday its president, present in Santos, in the south-east of Brazil, for the funeral wake of the legendary footballer.
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“We are going to ask all the countries in the world to name one of their stadiums in the name of Pelé,” Gianni Infantino told reporters.
Along with other football leaders, he was one of the first on Monday morning to pay his respects near Pelé's coffin, which was displayed in the center of the stadium lawn where the Brazilian wrote part of his his legend.
“We are filled with sadness.
Pelé is eternal, he is a world football icon,” he added.
At the headquarters of Fifa in Geneva, the flags of all countries were lowered to half-mast on Friday, the day after the death of the triple world champion, who had been fighting for more than a year against colon cancer.
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