Time.news – Pelé, considered by many to be the greatest footballer in history, he was discharged from the San Paolo medical center where he was hospitalized for a month and will undergo chemotherapy treatment, the hospital said.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 80, “was discharged from the Israelite Albert Einstein hospital on Thursday morning. The patient is stable and will continue chemotherapy after surgery to remove a bowel tumor on September 4th. “, the hospital said in a statement. The hospital did not provide further details on the chemotherapy treatment.
Considered by Fifa to be the greatest footballer of the twentieth century, a distinction he shares with the late Argentine star Diego Armando Maradona, Pele has shunned public life in recent years. With the arrival of Covid-19, which left nearly 600,000 dead in Brazil, the Brazilian champion isolated himself at his home in Guarujá, on the outskirts of São Paulo.
On his social networks he often remembers his exploits, supports the ‘Selecao’ and Santos – the two shirts with which he triumphed -, promotes vaccination against the coronavirus and even congratulates those who beat his records, such as Messi. Earlier this year, his legacy was brought to the fore by the release of a documentary about his life, released on Netflix. In one of his first appearances in the film, he is seen moving slowly with the help of a walker.
Pelé, who turns 81 on 23 October, has been hospitalized several times in recent times for various health problems. The latest was in 2019, when he was hospitalized in Paris and transferred to Sao Paulo to have a kidney stone removed. In 2014 ‘O Rei’ was in intensive care after another urinary tract infection forced him to undergo dialysis of his left kidney, surviving after his right kidney was removed in the 1970s due to an injury while he was still a player.
Jersey 10 has also undergone hip and spine surgeries and has had some difficulty moving since 2012, even appearing in public in a wheelchair on occasion. “It doesn’t matter how big the challenge. The secret is celebrating every little victory along the way,” he wrote while still in the hospital.
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