“Happy moments are eternal,” said one of the daughters of the former Brazilian soccer player on Tuesday. Edson Arantes do Nascimento ‘Pele’, in a message posted on social networks from the hospital where he accompanies the three-time world champion, whose delicate state of health is cause for concern.
The new message from Kely Cristina do Nascimento accompanies an old photograph in which the man considered by many to be the best soccer player of all time appears next to some of his daughters at a gala party for the Pele Little Prince Institutea foundation dedicated to health research for children and young people.
“Time flies… (but) happy moments are eternal,” says the former soccer player’s daughter about the old photograph in which Pele appears next to Kely Cristina and Jennifertwo of the daughters of his first marriage, already Flaviathe result of his relationship with another woman with whom he did not marry.
Many of Pelé’s children and grandchildren, as well as his wife, have spent the last few days together at the Albert Einstein Hospital from Sao Paulowhere the 82-year-old former soccer player has been hospitalized since November 29.
The delicate state of health of the three-time world champion attracts attention in Brazil since last Wednesday, when Albert Einstein reported a worsening of colon cancer that he was diagnosed with in 2021 and said that Pele is receiving care related to “kidney and heart dysfunctions”.
Pelé was hospitalized to evaluate a change in the chemotherapy treatment he had been receiving since he was detected in September last year. colon tumor.
Days later, the hospital reported that it was also treating him for a respiratory infection that, according to his daughters, he suffered as a result of a chest infection. Covid-19.
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