Pelé hospitalized, his daughters: “Soon home”

“In two or three days he comes home to enjoy Christmas. This wasn’t a surprise.” To clarify the admission to the Albert Einstein hospital in San Paolo di Pelé the daughters of the Brazilian champion on social media. “The hospitalization was already planned and is part of the treatment”, explains Kely Nascimento on Instagram, posting a photo in which her sister, Flavia Kurtz, is next to her smiling father in a hospital bed. Flavia Kurtz posted the same photo inviting everyone to be “calm” underlining how this is the “last visit of the year to Einstein” planned in the treatment and aimed at check-ups and chemo. The daughter of ‘O Rei’ concludes: “My father is fantastic. Thank you very much to everyone for the affection.” Pelé, 81, had been operated on in the same hospital in the past months for a colon cancer detected in September. In a note, Albert Einstein yesterday clarified that Pele “is in stable conditions, the forecast is that he will be discharged in a few days”.