A 60-year-old woman, Maria do Socorro Azevedo, who claims to be the daughter of the legendary footballer Pelé, who recently died in 2022, has requested the exhumation of the great Brazilian player's corpse at a court in São Paulo. This after the first DNA test conducted turned out negative. Maria do Socorro has stated that she is not pursuing financial interests and that she does not care to be recognized as Pelé's daughter only for economic reasons. According to her testimony, her mother would have had a meeting with Pelé in São Luis, but she never revealed to him that she was pregnant: "I don't do it for money, it makes no difference to me being Pelé's daughter or someone else's who has no money," the 60-year-old told Record TV. In Pelé's will, who died of colon cancer, there was mention of the possibility of having another daughter, but the DNA test was not completed before his death. Pelé's children agreed to take the test in 2022 after learning of Maria do Socorro's legal action. Pelé's widow, Márcia Aioki, has called the alleged daughter's request "unreasonable" and believes it is "unlikely" that justice will accept it, according to her lawyer.
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