Family members of Brazilian soccer great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo where the 82-year-old global icon has been since the end of November.
Family members of Brazilian soccer great Pelé are gathering at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo where the 82-year-old global iconDoctors said earlier this week that Pelé's cancer had advanced, adding the three-time World Cup winner is under"elevated care" related to"kidney and cardiac dysfunctions." No other hospital statements have been published since.
Edson Cholbi Nascimento, one of Pelé's sons, and known as Edinho, arrived Saturday, one day after he gave a news conference to deny he would visit his father in hospital. Edinho, who works for a soccer club in southern Brazil, had said then that only doctors could help his father. Hours later, Edinho, a former Santos goalkeeper, posted a picture showing his hand holding his father's.Kely Nascimento and her sister Flavia Arantes do Nascimento used their social media channels Friday night to post an undated picture of Pelé apparently holding Kely with one hand as he lay on his hospital bed and Flavia slept on a couch.
The hospital has not mentioned any signs of Pelé's recent respiratory infection, which was aggravated by COVID-19.
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