Sonny Side of Sports: Thousands Mourns Football Legend Pelé as Brazil Prepares to Bury Him & More
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Football legend Pele will be buried Tuesday after a procession of his coffin in Santos, Brazil.
Ahead of the private burial, pallbearers carried Pele's casket to the center circle at the Vila Belmiro Stadium in Santos, where he played some of the best matches of his career and where fans and dignitaries have been paying their respects.
On Tuesday's Sonny Side of Sports show, Nigerian football analyst Kunle Solaja describes Pele as a genius and reflects on an interview he did with Pele in 1991.
Also on the program, Moki Edwin Kindzeka reports on an age cheating scandal involving Cameroon's under-17 football team.