During this last day of the Brasileirao Série A, the prestigious club Santos FC, where the late King Pelé spent most of his career, absolutely had to record a positive result at home against Fortaleza to ensure its maintenance in the first division. A mission in which Marcelo Faria Fernandes’ men failed, being beaten 2-1.
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At the heart of an intense fight to avoid relegation, involving Vasco, Bahia and Santos, all three at one point virtually relegated during this 38th and final day of the Brazilian championship, Santos, led from the first half after a goal scored by his player trained at the club, Marino, in the 38th minute, had nevertheless managed to regain the upper hand by equalizing at the start of the second half, thus giving hope to an entire people. Especially since, at that time, the other competitors for the maintenance recorded results still favorable to the maintenance of Santos.
Unfortunately for this century-old club (111 years of history), three-time winner of the Copa Libertadores (1962, 1963, 2011) and eight-time Brazilian champion (last title in 2004), the positive results of Vasco, victorious 2-1 against in Bragantino, and Bahia, also victorious 4-1 against Mineiro, will have sealed the fate of the Peixe. They find themselves relegated for the first time in their history to Serie B.
Santos foi rebaixado com um gol que Pelé não fez
Isso é roteiro de Oscar.pic.twitter.com/2NhFHEctTV
— Peter Jordan (@peterjordan100) December 7, 2023
At the final whistle, the entire audience at the legendary Estádio Urbano Caldeira, where Pelé showed his greatness to the world and where a certain Neymar also learned his classes, collapsed, inconsolable.
Santos se fue a la B 🚬 pic.twitter.com/f6XwOrHlhr
— SIEMPRE A TU LADO (@PyD1891) December 7, 2023
Almost a year after the death of King Pelé, Santos fans are therefore facing a new mourning, that of their club, which is leaving the Brazilian elite to join the depths of Serie B, where the legendary number 10 of Pelé should wander for the first time, as if in lands still unknown to him.
The awakening promises to be most difficult in Santos. Next season too…
