The world of football and beyond is concerned about Pele’s health. The 82-year-old Brazilian champion has been in hospital for days as his illness worsened. According to doctors’ reports earlier in the week, the cancer the player has been battling for some time is advanced and the three-time world champion is undergoing “major treatments” related to “kidney and heart dysfunction”. The family of the former Carioca footballer is currently in the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where the 82-year-old world football icon has been staying since the end of November.
How is Pele: Conditions are deteriorating
The latest medical bulletin is from a few days ago, a complete silence both on the state of colon cancer against Pelè, who has been fighting since 2021, and on the recent respiratory infection. “The tumor is progressing and the conditions are getting more serious. The patient has renal and cardiac insufficiency. Pelé no longer speaks, he no longer reacts. Treatments need to be intensified, but we don’t know if he will recover,” the doctors wrote in non-consoling words that indicate an irreversible deterioration. “O Rey” has been in hospital since November 29 last year due to a respiratory infection after contracting Covid and due to a re-evaluation of his oncology treatments after chemotherapy failed.
The family in the hospital
The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported last weekend that the chemotherapy the footballer had undergone had not worked and that doctors had decided to put him under palliative care, although the family opposed this. The Brazilian champions stopped responding to stimuli and his family decided to accompany him to the hospital. Yesterday his daughter Kely Cristina Nascimento posted a photo on social media with her father as they sleep in the hospital and appended the phrase: “We are still here, in struggle and in faith. Another night together.” A pain that all the social media folks responded to with affection, with hope that “O Rey” can recover.
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