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Football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé has been hospitalized for many days now with no discharge date in sight.
Medical reports show that Pele’s ailment has worsened and now requires treatment for heart and kidney trouble at the hospital in Brazil.
According to Kely Nascimento, his daughter’s instagram post on Wednesday, the three time World Cup winner is under “elevated care” and will now spend Christmas at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein,.
Her post reads “Our Christmas at home has been suspended,” she wrote. “We decided with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would be better for us to stay here with all the care that this new family at Einstein gives us.”
“We decided with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would be better for us to stay here,” she said, posting from Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Sao Paulo.
She added, “We, as always, thank you for all the love you show here in Brazil as well as around the world! Your love for him, your stories and your prayers are a HUGE comfort because we know we are not alone.”
Pele has been fighting colon cancer since his diagnosis in September 2021 and was hospitalised three weeks ago after Covid aggravated a respiratory infection.
Pelé, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and labelled “the greatest” by FIFA, he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century.