the exastro Pelethree times world champion with Brazil, wished his team “luck” on Monday and said Where will you watch the quarterfinal match? of the World Cup between his team and South Korea.
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The message of Pelé was illustrated with a photo of himself at the age of 17 on the streets of Swedenwhere he won the first of the five World Cup trophies for Brazil in 1958.
“I will watch the game from the hospital and I will be rooting for each one of you. Good luck to our Brazil!”wrote the 82-year-old former soccer player, addressing the players in Doha.
“In 1958, in Sweden, I was walking through the streets thinking about fulfilling the promise I had made to my father,” explained Pelé, recalling that he had promised to return home with the trophy, after seeing his father suffer with the defeat against Uruguay in 1950, in a traumatic final in Rio known as the “Maracanazo”.
“I know that many players in the national team have made similar promises and that they will also go looking for their first World Cup. I want to inspire you my friends“, he added.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé was admitted on November 29 for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment. against colon cancer identified last year, according to the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo.
Two of Pelé’s daughters denied on Sunday that the former star’s health is at risk and they were confident that he will return home when his respiratory condition improves.
Pele “is sick, he’s old, but right now he’s hospitalized due to a lung infection. And when he gets better, he’ll come home,” Kely Nascimento said in a television interview with the Globo channel’s Fantastico program.
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“He is not saying goodbye in the hospital,” added Kely, who explained that the infection derived from a covid-19 infection that the former player suffered three weeks ago.
Numerous football personalities sent him messages of support over the weekend from Qatar, including the French Kylian Mbappé and the English captain Harry Kane.
