Pele's daughter reveals a resounding surprise. The legend did not suffer from any problems
One of Brazilian football legend Pele's daughters said her "father was not taken to palliative care", playing down reports that he was in the near-death unit after the former player was admitted to hospital last week for a re-evaluation. Treatment of colon cancer.
The 82-year-old Pele, considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time, removed a colon tumor in September 2021 and is receiving regular hospital care.
"Pele is under palliative care after chemotherapy failed to produce the expected results," Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported on Saturday.
Pele's doctors did not confirm this information, and his daughter, Flavia Nascimento, said, "The report was far from correct."
"It is unfair for people to say that he is in an emergency health condition, and that he is under palliative care. Believe us, this is not true," she said in an interview with Globo TV.
Flavia added, "The medications that her father gets are modified from time to time because he was not fully recovering from colon cancer."
"Pele is in stable condition and has responded well to treatment for a respiratory infection, which was diagnosed after his admission to the hospital," said the latest report from the medical staff at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo last Saturday afternoon.
Kelly, one of Pele's daughters, added in the interview that he contracted Covid-19 about three weeks ago, which led to a respiratory infection.
"He is sick and old but at the moment he is being treated for a respiratory infection and when he is better he will go home," Kelly said.
"He's not putting the world in the hospital now."
Pele played as a forward for Brazil, Santos and New York Cosmos.
He won the World Cup three times in 1958, 1962 and 1970, an achievement that no other player could achieve.
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