Brazil Legend Pele Recovering After Tumor Operation

By Daily Sports on September 7, 2021

 

Brazilian football great Pele has undergone surgery for a suspected colon tumor and is recovering, the hospital in Sao Paolo treating him announced on Monday.

“The tumor was identified during routine cardiovascular and laboratory examinations and the material was sent for pathological analysis,” said the Albert Einstein Hospital where 80-year-old Pele has been treated since August 31.

The three-time World Cup winner posted a message on social media six days ago, saying he was “in good health” and denying rumors that he had passed out.

“I went to the hospital for routine examinations that I had not been able to perform before because of the pandemic,” he explained in his August 31 post, without mentioning that he had remained in hospital.

Pele, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, has been in poor health in recent years and has had various spells in hospital, most recently in April 2019, in Paris, because of a severe urinary tract infection.

Back in Brazil, he had a kidney stone removed.

At the end of 2014, he suffered from a serious urinary tract infection and was placed in intensive care and on dialysis.

He also has hip problems and needed a walker to move around during his latest public appearances. (AFP)

•PHOTO: Pele

Source Daily Sports

Posted September 7, 2021


 

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