Relatives accompanied the legendary Pelé this Christmas at the Sao Paulo hospital where he remains hospitalized with deteriorated health due to cancer, according to publications by his children on social networks.
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After midnight in that area of Brazil, Kely Nascimentoone of Pelé’s daughters, posted a photo on Instagram with the current wife of the former soccer player, Marcia Aokiand other relatives, at the Albert Einstein Hospital, where the former star is hospitalized.
“Almost every. Merry Christmas. Gratitude, love, togetherness, family. The essence of Christmas. We thank you all for all the love and light you send,” Kely wrote in the post, in which Pelé did not appear.
In the photo next to Kely they are Flavia Y edinhoalso sons of Pelé, and his granddaughters Sophia Y Stephanieamong others.
edinhorecently appointed coach of the Londrina club, arrived in the São Paulo capital on Saturday, where he joined his sisters to accompany the 82-year-old former artilleryman.
“Father… my strength is yours,” he wrote on Instagram under a photo holding his hand.
On Friday night, Kely shared a photo hugging Pelé in the hospital bed where he has been hospitalized since November 29, and wrote: “We are still here, in the fight and in the faith. One more night together.”
The hospital did not report on Saturday about the health of the historical idol of the ‘Canarinha’.
In his last part on wednesdaythe medical team reported that Pelé had a colon cancer “progression” facing and receiving care for “kidney and heart dysfunction.”
The exastro is “admitted to a common room,” the hospital added.
That same day, the daughters reported that she would not be coming home for Christmas.
Pelé was initially admitted for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment against colon cancer, detected in September last year, and to treat a respiratory infection derived from a recent covid infection, as reported.