Pele Health Update: Family thanks doctors gathers at hospital on Christmas Day: While the whole world was busy celebrating Christmas with their loved ones, family members of football legend Pele were at the Sao Paulo hospital alongside the ailing football legend. One of his family members put up an emotional post on Instagram, thanking doctors for taking care of the football legend at such a difficult time. Pele is suffering from worsening cancer as well as kidney and heart problems, according to social media posts. Edinho, Pele’s son — who was recently appointed coach of Serie B football club Londrina, based in Parana in the north — arrived on Christmas Eve at the medical center, where he joined his sisters Flavia and Kely Nascimento. Follow Pele Health LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN
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In the emotional post the family revealed that they are a lot thankful to the Lord Almighty for giving them the opportunity to spend Christmas together in the hospital. The family member also thanked the hospital and the doctors for taking care of their father with so much care and affection.
Pele has been fighting with cancer for an extended period of time and reports have emerged that the football legend isn’t doing great. Although the grit and determination which Pele has shown during this tough time has been commendable, as per the doctors.
Pele Health Update: Pele’s family gathers at hospital on Christmas Day to be with football legend, Check pics:
He posted an Instagram photo of himself holding the football star’s hand, captioning it: “Father… my strength is yours.” The ex-goalkeeper arrived a day after having explained his absence at his father’s side to local media.
“I would like to be present, but I am committed to my mission here. I’m not a doctor, I couldn’t really help much,” he said in an interview published on Friday by the daily Estadao.
That same day, Kely shared a photo of herself hugging her 82-year-old father in the hospital with the caption “one more night together.”
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.”
Earlier that day his daughters had announced he would not be home for Christmas.
Pele Health Update: Pele’s family gathers at hospital on Christmas Day to be with football legend, Check pics:
The atmosphere was calm outside of the hospital on Saturday, according to AFP.
Pele is considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time and has received several messages of support since his hospitalization, including from the French star Kylian Mbappe, who called on followers to “pray for the King.”
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Pele was hospitalized 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 tumor in September 2021.
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