Cape Verde has become the first country to name a stadium after Pele following FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s call for every nation to do so .
The Prime Minister of the African country said they would name their national stadium – Estádio da Várzea – after the Brazil great, who died aged 82 on December 29.
Cape Verde, which is made up of a group of islands to the west of the main African continent in the Atlantic Ocean, shares Portuguese as a common language with Brazil.