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Dec 25 (Reuters) – Family members of Brazilian soccer legend Pele gathered on Saturday at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where the 82-year-old, widely regarded as one of the greatest soccer players of all time, has been since late November.
Doctors said this week that Pele’s cancer had progressed and that he needed treatment for kidney and heart failure. His family said he will remain in a Sao Paulo hospital for Christmas.
Pele has been receiving regular medical treatment since a tumor was removed from his colon in September last year.
“Almost all of them. Merry Christmas. Gratitude, love, togetherness, family. The essence of Christmas. We thank you all for the love and light you send,” his daughter Kely Nascimento wrote on Instagram with a photo of their family. hospital.
Pele’s son Edinho, who played in goal for Santos in the 1990s, posted a photo on Instagram on Saturday holding his father’s hand with the caption “Dad… my strength is yours.”
Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Surgery William Mallard
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