Brazil holds its breath. On Wednesday, December 21, the São Paulo hospital announced Pelé’s state of health “greater care” due to “renal and heart failure”. The 82-year-old triple world champion is suffering from colon cancer.
He was admitted three weeks ago to the Albert-Einstein hospital in São Paulo for a reevaluation of his chemotherapy treatment after colon cancer was detected in September 2021. In a statement, doctors announced that there was “oncological disease progression” and the need for treatment to monitor “kidney and heart dysfunction”. The former footballer is still hospitalized in a classic room, he has not been hospitalized in intensive care.
The daughters of the planetary star have announced that their father’s state of health has not allowed them to return home to spend the Christmas holidays with their family: “Our Christmas at home is off. We decided for several reasons that it would be better to stay here with all the attention that the Einstein family reserves for us.”