FIFA President Infantino expressed his gratitude to the federal government of the meta division at Columbia for naming a stadium after Pele.

Throughout the funeral of the soccer legend, the FIFA president introduced that FIFA would ask 211 member international locations to call not less than one stadium of their nation after Pele as a mark of honor.

“I thank Juan Guillermo Zuluaga and the federal government of the Meta division for this lovely homage to the Everlasting King Pelé,” Infantino mentioned on Friday. mentioned.

Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, the governor of Colombia’s southern meta division, introduced on Friday that the 15,000-capacity Villavicencio stadium might be named after Pele.

“We’re saying to the world that our great stadium in Villavicencio, from the Colombian plains, might be named Bello Horizonte “Rey Pelé”,” he mentioned.

“Future generations ought to know who this icon of world soccer is. We accepted FIFA’s proposal.”

Columbia, naming the stadium after the soccer icon, made its approach to the Cape Verde Islands and Guinea Bissau.

Beforehand, the soccer governing physique of the world had additionally modified the title of the soccer discipline in its headquarters to “Estadio Pele-FIFA Zurich”.