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Pele, a Brazilian soccer player, died in September. footballers in Assam, including Durga Boro Hali, Charan Narzary, Alen Deory, Milan Basumatary, and Hemendranath Brahma, mourned his death. Assam is currently holding the group III matches of the 76th senior men's national football championship for the Santosh Trophy. The matches are being held in lower Assam's Kokrajhar. Brahma said the organizers and the footballers mourned Pele's death by observing two minutes' silence before the beginning of the match between Tamil Nadu and Nagaland in Kokrajhar on Friday. He said Assam is a state full of football talent "but lacks adequate infrastructure and facilities for football, the Assam Football Association does not have its own field for practice, it uses the Nehru stadium which is actually a cricket ground."