This Sunday, Joshua Arantes, Pelé’s son, arrived at the Albert Einstein Hospital and joined his brothers and other relatives to accompany the 82-year-old former player, according to a photo posted on Instagram by Kely Nascimento, also the daughter of ‘O Rei’ .
“One more arrived,” he wrote next to the image kissing Joshua, who appears smiling.
At the door of the medical center, where the historical idol of Brazil has been hospitalized since November 29, the weather was calm and there were only a few journalists, AFP found.
The hospital has not reported on Pele’s health since Wednesday. The last part indicated that he presented a “progression” of the colon cancer that he suffers and received care for “renal and cardiac dysfunctions”, in a common room.
In the early hours of Sunday, Kely shared a photo with her brothers Flavia, Edinho and Celeste, and the current wife of the former soccer player, Márcia Aoki, as well as Sophia and Stephany, Pelé’s granddaughters, among others.
“Almost everyone. (…) Gratitude, love, union, family. The essence of Christmas. We thank you all for all the love and light you send,” he wrote in the publication, in which Pelé does not appear.
Edinho arrived in the São Paulo capital on Saturday: “Father… my strength is yours,” he pointed out under a photo on Instagram, taking the star’s hand.
The former goalkeeper, recently appointed coach of the Londrina club (Paraná, south), traveled to Sao Paulo despite the fact that he had excused himself from doing so before: “I am committed to my mission here (at the club). I am not a doctor, I could not help much really,” he told Estado.
On Friday night, Kely had shared an image hugging Pelé in the hospital bed: “We are still here, in the fight and in the faith. One more night together.”
Days before, the daughters reported that Pelé would not return home for Christmas: “Our Christmas at home was canceled (…) It will be better for us to stay here, with all the care that this new family (from the hospital) gives us,” Kely stated on Instagram.
Pelé was initially admitted for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment against colon cancer, detected in September last year, and to treat a respiratory infection derived from a recent covid infection, as reported.
His relatives denied that it was an emergency, but the ex-soccer player’s health worsened as the days went by.