Pelé responding well to treatment for respiratory infection
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer nice Pelé is responding properly to remedy for a respiratory an infection and his well being situation has not worsened over the newest 24 hours, the Albert Einstein hospital mentioned Saturday.
The 82-year-old Pelé has been on the hospital since Tuesday.
“I’m strong, with a lot of hope and I follow my treatment as usual. I want to thank the entire medical and nursing team for all the care I have received,” Pelé mentioned in a press release posted on Instagram. “I have a lot of faith in God and every message of love I receive from you all over the world keeps me full of energy. And watch Brazil in the World Cup, too.”
Get properly messages have poured in from all over the world for the three-time World Cup winner, who can be present process most cancers remedy. Kely Nascimento, Pelé’s daughter, posted a number of footage on Instagram from Brazil followers in Qatar wishing her father properly with flags and banners. Buildings within the Middle Eastern nation additionally displayed messages in help of the previous soccer nice.
Brazil will face South Korea on the World Cup on Monday within the spherical of 16.
Pelé helped Brazil win the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups and stays the staff’s all-time main scorer with 77 objectives in 92 matches.
The Albert Einstein hospital mentioned Friday that Pelé is getting antibiotics to deal with an an infection on the identical time he undergoes chemotherapy towards most cancers. Pelé, whose actual title is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, had a colon tumor eliminated in September 2021.
Neither his household nor the hospital has mentioned whether or not the most cancers had unfold to different organs.
Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported Saturday that Pelé’s chemotherapy just isn’t working and that docs had determined to place him on palliative care. The Associated Press couldn’t affirm that info.
ESPN Brasil reported Wednesday that Pelé was taken to the hospital due to “general swelling.”
