Football legend “King” Pele has left hospital in Sao Paulo where he was treated for a urinary tract infection and continued his chemotherapy, the establishment announced on Monday. The 81-year-old Brazilian “was cleared from hospital on Saturday,” his doctors wrote in a statement after a two-week hospitalization.
“He is clinically stable, recovered from his urinary tract infection and continued treatment for a colon tumor detected in September 2021,” his doctors add. The health of the three-time World Cup winner with Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970) has been fragile for years. Before this last hospitalization since February 13, Pelé had already made a two-week stay in December at the Albert Einstein hospital. This time again, little information has leaked out on his real state of health. With each hospital stay, he or his family post photos on social networks to reassure his many fans.
Pelé had been hospitalized in the same hospital for a month between August and September 2021. He had been removed from a cancerous colon tumor detected during routine examinations. ESPN Brazil claimed at the end of January that the condition of the Brazilian star has deteriorated considerably in recent months and that the colon tumor diagnosed and successfully operated on at the end of September 2021 was only the beginnings of generalized cancer. The former Santos and Seleção striker would now suffer from a tumor in the intestine, one in the liver and the start of a third in the lung.
