Pelé’s family moved the toast on the 24th to the hospital to be close to the Brazilian champion: “Our Christmas at home has been suspended”

Relatives accompanied the legendary Pelé this Saturday to the San Pablo hospital where remains hospitalized with deteriorating health due to cancer who suffers, according to a post by her daughter on social media.

Edinho, son of “O Rei” and recently appointed coach of the Londrina club (Paraná, north), arrived on Christmas Eve at the medical center of the capital São Paulo, where he joined his sisters Flavia and Kely Nascimento.

“It has arrived,” Kely wrote on her Instagram along with a photo with Edinho and another with her daughters, Sophia and Stephany Nascimento.

The former goalkeeper was present, despite having apologized the day before for not having been with his father: “I’d like to be present, but I’m busy with my mission here. I’m not a doctor, it couldn’t really help much,” he said in an interview published on Friday by the Estadao newspaper.

In the evening, Kely shared a photo in which he embraced the three-time world champion with the Seleçao in the hospital bed where he has been hospitalized since November 29, and wrote: “We are still here, in the fight and in the faith. One more night together.” .

At the door of that center, the Albert Einstein Hospital, which He gave no news of Pele’s healththe weather was calm and there were only a few journalists, reports the AFP news agency.

In its latest medical report on Wednesday, the hospital said Pele had “progression” of the colon cancer he is facing and was receiving treatment for “kidney and heart dysfunction”. That same day, the daughters of “’O Rei”, three times world champion with Brazil (1958, 1962 and 1970), said that he would not be coming home for Christmas.

“Our Christmas at home has been suspended. We have decided together with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would be better for us to stay here, with all the care that this new (hospital) Einstein family gives us,” wrote Kely . on Instagram, along with a selfie taken with her sister Flavia in the hospital.

Pele was initially hospitalized for a reevaluation of his chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer detected in September last year and to treat a respiratory infection stemming from a recent covid infection, according to doctors and his family.

Denials of Pele’s death

Kelly Nascimento, on Friday evening and through social media, denied the rumors about her father’s death.

Given the lack of information, rumors of his death have begun to gain strength. They have even multiplied after the images in which we see a structure in the center of the Santos stadium that would have hosted the imminent funeral of Edson Arantes do Nascimento.

“A spokesman for the Alberto Einstein hospital has just confirmed that for the moment there will be no medical bulletin. And he told reporters: ‘Pelé is alive,'” famous Brazilian journalist Fernando Miter said on his Twitter account.