“Sadness and despair”: the emotional charge of Pele’s daughter, after spending almost a month in the hospital

one of the daughters of Pele said this Wednesday that both she and her family have moments of “sadness Y despair”almost a month after the great Brazilian former footballer was hospitalized and without the doctors showing any sign of improvement.

82-year-old Pelé’s cancer has progressed and doctors at Albert Einstein Hospital recently said the three-time World Cup-winning star will undergo “specialist care”, in relation to their “renal and cardiac dysfunctions”.

Pelé was admitted to that clinic in São Paulo on November 29. The hospital hasn’t released any new information about his health in the past week.

“These moments are hard to explain. Sometimes there is a lot of sadness and despair. Other times we laugh and talk about funny memories,” she wrote. Kelly Nascimentoone of the daughters ofoh king‘, in a message posted on his Instagram account.

“And what we learn the most from all of this is that we need to take care of each other and stay close. Only then is everything worth it, with everyone together ”, she concluded.

The text accompanies a photo of other relatives of Pele, some of whom also accompany him to the hospital.

Edinho, one of Pelé’s sons, visited the clinic on Saturday but returned to a city in southern Brazil on Tuesday, where he works as a soccer coach. He hasn’t spoken to the press since he left San Paolo.

“Father my strength is yours“Edinho posted that day on his Instagram account, a phrase that accompanied a moving image clinging to his hand. The location, the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital.

Pelé had a colon tumor removed in September 2021. Neither his family nor the hospital have specified whether the tumor has spread to other organs.

The newspaper Folha de São Paulo reported over the weekend that the chemotherapy Pelé was undergoing was not working and that the doctors had decided to give him palliative care. Pele’s family denied this information.

Currently the former Brazilian footballer is in a common room as his health deteriorates day by day and Brazil, despite holding on to one last drop of hope, brace themselves for the worst news.

He is Brazil’s biggest sports idol and one of the best footballers of all time, which is why the neighboring country is preparing to bid him a farewell worthy of such a legend.

Inside to fish won 20 titles, including two Copa Libertadores and two Intercontinental Cups, and scored 643 goals in 663 PJs, a single club record until Lionel Messi surpassed it last year (672 out of 778 with FC Barcelona).

The club where he made his debut and forged the legend he would become will also put a crown on his shirt next season, in tribute to the idol. The local press reported it.

With information from EFE.