Pelé and the mystery of the locked locker at the Santos stadium: what’s inside – Corriere.it

Pel’s locker locked for 48 years. It has never been reopened since O Rei’s last match with the Santos shirt – his second skin together with that of Seleao – in 1974. Now that Pel is gone, we have returned to talk about that locker. It is known that there is a black chest, but no one knows what is inside, not even the top management of the club. Its content is considered a sort of amulet, something intimately linked to the history of the player and the club.

It hasn’t been touched for over 48 years, practically half a century. located in the central space of the dressing room, within the walls of the Vila Belmiro stadium (where O Rei’s funeral will be celebrated on Tuesday). And it contains that special package in which Pel, after the match against Ponte Preta on 2 October 1974, decided to place an object used in his last match. Now many are wondering what is inside. The explanation of Rogerio Zilli, curator of the collection dedicated to Pel, deepens the mystery: Pel’s words were very simple. As long as the club keeps this item he will always have a lot of luck around him, he told globo.com.

And for this reason that, despite the inevitable structural interventions of almost 50 years, as normal in this very long period of time, the cabinet was repainted, it was maintained during the restoration works of the plant, but remained intact and closed as the player left it. And no one in the club has the key to open it. We never thought of doing that. We will talk to the family and decide what to do: we will see if this mystery will have a solution or if it will remain so, said the president of Santos, Andres Rueda, even if it seems that a public ceremony may even be organized to open it.