SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazilian soccer nice Pele downplayed his newest well being difficulty Thursday (Dec 9) after he was hospitalized to bear chemotherapy for a colon tumor, saying he can be there for simply “a number of days.”
“I’ve been having small chemotherapy periods as a part of my remedy. At the moment I am at Albert Einstein (hospital) doing the final session of 2021,” the 81-year-old legend wrote on Instagram.
“I needed to share this achievement with you. In spite of everything, each little victory is a cause to have fun,” he wrote from the Sao Paulo hospital.
“I’ll take this opportunity to do a brand new battery of exams, so I’ll keep right here for a number of days. Don’t fret, I am simply preparing for the vacation season!”
Pele underwent surgical procedure for the tumor on September 4, spending a month within the hospital earlier than being launched to proceed chemotherapy.
It’s the newest in a string of well being troubles for the growing old star, whose public appearances have grown more and more uncommon.
Thought of by many the best footballer of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento – Pele’s actual identify – is the one participant in historical past to win three World Cups (1958, 1962 and 1970).
He burst onto the worldwide stage at simply 17 by scoring dazzling objectives, together with two within the ultimate towards hosts Sweden, as Brazil received the World Cup for the primary time in 1958.
“O Rei” (The King) went on to have one of the storied careers in sport, scoring greater than 1,000 objectives earlier than retiring in 1977.
