After his demise, the household wished that his former membership would by no means once more have a participant with this shirt quantity.
In reminiscence of his membership legend Pelé, FC Santos ought to by no means put on the shirt quantity 10 once more, his survivors want. At least that’s what the South American TV community Globo experiences.
Three-time soccer world champion Pelé died yesterday, December 29, of a number of organ failure because of malignant colon most cancers. He was 82 years outdated. Between 1956 and 1974 he wore the black and white jersey of FC Santos for 18 lengthy years, with which he twice gained the South American counterpart to the Champions League, the Copa Libertadores. During his time on the Atlantic Coast membership, Pelé alone scored over 500 league objectives.
Due to those providers to the membership, which later additionally produced Neymar, the Pelés household needs to submit an official software to the board of administrators to dam the shirt quantity 10 from being awarded once more. Santos’ quantity 10 is at the moment worn by Venezuelan Yeferson Soteldo.
