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SAO PAULO – Pelé’s daughter posted a photo of the Brazilian football legend from his hospital bed in Sao Paulo yesterday with the caption “one more night together”.
In the photo, Kely Cristina Nascimento is seen hugging her 82-year-old father, with only one side of his face visible in the image. Pelé is suffering from worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems.
“We’re still here, in the fight and in the faith. One more night together,” Nascimento wrote below the photo shared on Instagram around 11.00pm local time.
On Wednesday, the Albert Einstein Hospital, where the three-time World Cup winner is staying, announced that his colon cancer was showing “progression” and he needed “more extensive care to treat kidney and heart failure”.
Minutes earlier, Nascimento and Flavia Arantes, another one of Pelé’s daughters, had announced on Instagram that their father would spend Christmas at the hospital.
Last Sunday, Nascimento had posted a photo of Arantes massaging their father’s left foot as he watched the World Cup final on TV.
After the match, Pelé congratulated Argentine Lionel Messi for his “deserved” victory against France.
During this World Cup, Pelé saw Neymar equal his international goal-scoring record for the Selecao (77).
Pelé is considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time and has received several messages of support since his hospitalisation, including from the French star Kylian Mbappé, who called on followers to “pray for the King”.
Pelé was hospitalised in Sao Paulo on November 29 for what his medical team called a re-evaluation of his chemotherapy treatments, which he has been receiving since having surgery to remove a colon tumour in September 2021. – AFP, December 24, 2022
