The state of health of “King” Edson Arantes do Nascimento is “good and stable. He is expected to leave the hospital in the coming days,” Albert Einstein Hospital said in a statement.
Considered by many to be the best player of all time, Pelé (81) has to visit the clinic at least once a month to undergo regular check-ups and continue chemotherapy for the colon tumor detected in September, according to his family .
The only three-time world champion player (1958, 1962 and 1970), Pelé was hospitalized for two weeks in February due to a urinary tract infection discovered on his way to usual examinations.
The former star of Santos and the Brazilian team had been hospitalized in Paris in 2019 and then transferred to Sao Paulo for kidney stones. Back in Brazil, he had a kidney stone removed.
In 2014, the legendary number 10 was hospitalized in intensive care due to a urinary tract infection which required him to undergo dialysis on his left kidney, after the right was removed in the 70s due to a wound.
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