Soccer star Pele, Brazilian legend of the beautiful game, dies at 82

Pele, the iconic Brazilian soccer player who

to become one of modern history's greatest and most well-known athletes, died on Thursday at the age of 82.

According to the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, Pele died at 3:27 p.m. "due to multiple

resulting from associated with his previous ."

Tributes flowed in from sports, politics, and popular culture for a man who embodied Brazil's domination of the beautiful game. On Monday,

for Pele will be held in the center of the field at Santos Stadium, his local club where he began playing as a teenager and soon climbed to renown. The next day, a procession carrying his casket will walk through the streets of Santos, past the neighborhood where his 100-year-old mother lives, and conclude at the Ecumenical Memorial Necropolis cemetery, where he will be buried in .

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