Pele's wife's emotional message: "This love will never die"

Football legend Pele's widow, businesswoman Marcia Aoki, published an open letter on Sunday in which she said goodbye to the three-time world champion exactly one month after his death and also thanked the fans for their messages and tributes.

The letter was published on Pele's own social networks, in a message that clarifies that it is the first publication in the same since his death on 29th December and doing something he would like: "to say thank you very much".

"Saying goodbye to the one I love and getting used to not having by my side the reason for my life, his love filled with affection, his unique humour and his complicity will take time...," said the widow of the man considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, who died at the age of 82 from complications of colon cancer.

Pele's third wife Aoki, whom she married in 2016 after four years of dating, lamented in the letter that she did not have more minutes to exchange glances with her husband and more minutes to play with Cacau, an inseparable dog they both considered their daughter.

"Despite knowing that this is an inevitable fate for everyone, the realisation that this moment has come for me is the feeling of an empty space, of absence, that presses on my chest," she added.

Aoki also used the open letter to thank the hundreds of fans who still pay tribute to Pele today, as well as the club Santos, where 'O Rei' was immortalised and in whose stadium he was farewelled.

"There is also another feeling, of strong gratitude for being able to share my grief with the whole world. We received millions of messages of affection and solidarity, which filled our hearts with comfort and peace," he said.

According to the wife, dividing her life with Pele was a real and unique love story, as was dividing the footballer's love with the fans. "This love will never die and will continue between us. Eternally," she concluded.

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