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The Guinean Government decided to change the name of the Bafat\u00e1 field, the second capital of the country, to Est\u00e1dio Pel\u00e9, in response to the appeal of FIFA (https:\/\/www.FIFA.com<\/a>) President Gianni Infantino, who asked for a worldwide tribute to the former Brazilian footballer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The decision was taken at the Council of Ministers, meeting in Bissau, under the chairmanship of the Guinean head of state, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, says a government statement to which Lusa had access.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “As a result and as an expression of public recognition of the status of King of World Football that is granted to him, the Council of Ministers decided to name the Regional State of Bafat\u00e1 ‘Pele Stadium’ in response to the appeal of the president of FIFA”, he points out. the Government statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Until now, Bafat\u00e1’s playing field was called Est\u00e1dio da Rocha and was used by Sporting Clube de Bafat\u00e1, a club founded in 1937 that regularly competes in the Guinean first division football championship.<\/p>\n On the day Pel\u00e9’s death was announced, last December 29, the president of the Guinea-Bissau Football Federation, Carlos Teixeira, addressed wishes of condolence to the people and to the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Pel\u00e9 is today a unique figure in the world. Everyone knows in this world who Pel\u00e9 is, he was a planetary figure”, observed the leader of the Guinea-Bissau Football Federation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pel\u00e9 died on Thursday, aged 82, at the Albert Einstein Israeli hospital, in S\u00e3o Paulo, following the failure of multiple organs a result of the progression of colon cancer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n