football legend Pele in the hospital He’s “strong, with a lot of hope,” Pele said.
Brazilian football star Pele said on Saturday that he felt “strong, with a lot of hope” despite medical concerns that have left the 82-year-old sports icon in the hospital with a lung infection. Pele, widely regarded as the greatest footballer of all time, was hospitalised earlier this week amid ongoing colon cancer treatments.
Pele, a Brazilian football great who is 82 years old and currently confined to the hospital with a respiratory infection, claimed on Saturday that he felt “strong, with a lot of hope” despite his health issues.
The world’s most renowned footballer of all time, Pele, was admitted to the hospital earlier this week while undergoing colon cancer treatments.
Pele’s status remained “stable,” according to earlier statements made by medical professionals on Saturday, and had not changed during the previous day.
In a statement, medical staff at Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital said that Pele “has had a good response to care without any worsening in the clinical picture in the last 24 hours.”
In response to media allegations that the three-time World Cup champion was undergoing end-of-life care early on Saturday, doctors said nothing. Pele was taken to the hospital earlier this week for a “re-evaluation” of the chemotherapy he has been receiving since having surgery to remove a colon tumour in September of last year, according to the physicians. Players at the World Cup being played in Qatar showed their support for Pele.
Kylian Mbappe, a striker for France, tweeted on Saturday, “Pray for the King.” In a press conference held before his team’s round of 16 match against Senegal, England captain Harry Kane expressed his support for Pele.
We send him and certainly his entire family our best regards, Kane said. “He is an inspiration for us in our sport, an amazing footballer, and an amazing person. We wish him the best.” One of the most accomplished and well-known athletes of the 20th century, Pele is the only football player in history to have won three World Cups (1958, 1962, and 1970).
Before retiring in 1977, he amassed more than 1,200 goals during one of the most illustrious careers in sports, earning the moniker “O Rei” (The King).
Pele was a star from a young age and took the 1958 World Cup by storm when he was just 17 years old, scoring three goals in the semifinals and two more in the championship game to launch both his personal career and the Brazilian national team’s soccer dynasty.
Pele has experienced declining health in recent years, but he has handled the situation with his typical wit.
The sports star wrote on Instagram on Saturday that the outpouring of affection from all over the world “keeps me full of energy” and that he can’t wait to “watch Brazil in the World Cup too!”