Kely Cristina Nascimento, daughter of former Brazilian soccer star Pelé, shared a photo on Friday night hugging her father in the hospital bed where he remains hospitalized, along with the message "We are still here, in the fight and in the faith. A more night together".
Around 11:00 p.m. local time in Sao Paulo (02:00 GMT), the @iamkelynascimento Instagram account posted a photo showing Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 82,
caressing his daughter's arm as she hugs him from the side. from the bed.
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Pelé says he feels "strong" and with "a lot of hope"
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Pelé says he feels "strong" and with "a lot of hope"
On Wednesday, the Albert Einstein Hospital, where the former soccer player has been
hospitalized for three weeks
, reported that Pelé presented a "progression" of the colon cancer he is facing and receives care for "kidney and heart dysfunction."
Also that day, the daughters of 'O Rei', three times world champion with Brazil (1958, 1962 and 1970), said that
he would not return home for Christmas.
"Our Christmas at home was suspended. We decided together with the doctors that, for various reasons,
it would be better for us to stay here
, with all the care that this new family [of the Albert] Einstein hospital gives us," Kely Nascimento wrote on Instagram , along with a selfie taken with her sister Flavia Arantes Nascimento at the hospital.
Pelé was admitted on November 29 for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment
for colon cancer
detected in September last year, and to treat a respiratory infection derived from a recent covid infection, according to doctors and his family.
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