Pele on the mend after health scare
PELE has revealed he is very well despite “a little step back” this week in his recovery after surgery to remove a tumour from his colon earlier this month.
The three-time
World Cup winner was expected to return home shortly after he left intensive care at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo on Tuesday.
Reports in Brazil on Friday stated the 80-year-old was back in the ICU.
But his daughter later that night sought to reassure the football community over his health – before the Santos great also provided a social media update.
“My friends, I am still recovering very well,” Pele said on
Instagram. Today I received visits from family members and I continue to smile every day. Thank you for all the love I get from you.”
Hours before, his daughter Kely Nascimento had revealed the latest on her father’s progress following the procedure in September.
“There’s already a lot of anxiety roaming the world these days and we don’t want to be the reason for more,” she wrote on Instagram.
Officially, Pele scored 757 goals during his career, leaving him behind only Cristiano Ronaldo and Josef Bican on the all-time list.