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Brazilian soccer legend Pele's son to serve drug-related prison sentence

Brazilian soccer legend Pele [PHOTO: COURTESY]

The son of soccer great Pele has pledged to turn himself over to police after a court ruled he must serve almost 13 years of a 33-year drug-trafficking sentence, his lawyer told Reuters on Friday.

"He is going to turn himself in as soon as the decision is in the system," Eugenio Malavasi, lawyer for Edinho, said.

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