<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Colombia is the first Latin American country to meet FIFA president Gianni Infantino's request to name a stadium after Pele.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Infantino on Monday said world football's governing body would ask all countries to name a stadium after the Brazilian icon, widely regarded as the greatest footballer of all time, who died last week after a long battle with illness.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">And late on Wednesday, the governor of Colombia's southern Meta department, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga announced on Twitter that a stadium in the city of Villavicencio "will be called BELLO HORIZONTE 'REY PELE'."</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"Future generations must know who this world football icon was," said Zuluaga.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The 15,000 capacity stadium inaugurated in 1958 was previously called simply Bello Horizonte, which means "beautiful skyline" in Spanish.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">It is the home of modest second division Colombian side Llaneros.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Pele died on December 29 aged 82 following a long battle with colon cancer.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He was buried on Tuesday in Santos, the city where he played most of his football career and made his name.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">While attending Pele's wake, Infantino said he would ask all FIFA's member federations to pay tribute to Pele by renaming a stadium after the three-time World Cup winner.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Colombia was beaten to the stadium move by Cape Verde, whose prime minister Jose Ulisses Correia e Silva had announced earlier on Wednesday the renaming of the national stadium in the capital Praia.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The northeastern Brazilian city of Maceio has since 1979 had a stadium called "Rei Pele" (King Pele) although it is commonly known as the Trapichao. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh/</div>