TITE SENDS MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO PELE

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Brazil coach Tite sent a message of support to Pele from the World Cup on Thursday. Pele was hospitalised on Tuesday in Sao Paulo to regulate the medication in his fight against a colon tumour, his daughter Kely Nascimento said. She added that there was “no emergency” concerning her 82-year-old father’s health. “We all want to wish good health to Pelé,” Tite said in Qatar. “(Pele) is our biggest extraterrestrial representative,” Tite joked. Pele was listed in stable condition after arriving at the hospital “for a re-evaluation of the chemotherapeutic treatment of the tumour.” The hospital said the former great “has full control of his vital functions” and was not taken to intensive or semiintensive care units for treatment.