He is considered one of football's greatest of all time.

But the last few years have been marred by several stays in hospital.

Among other things, he has been in the intensive care unit and has had surgery to remove a tumor in his colon.

Brazilian ESPN writes that Pelé arrived at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo on Tuesday and that he was swollen all over his body.

The doctors must have then diagnosed heart failure.

The text is updated.

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Pele is hospitalized again.

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