Edinho, Pelé’s son and recently appointed coach of the Londrina club (Paraná, north), arrived on Christmas Eve at the medical center in the capital of São Paulo, where he joined his sisters Flavia and Kely Nascimento.
“It arrived,” Kely wrote on her Instagram along with a photo with Edinho, and another with his daughters, Sophia and Stephany Nascimento.
The former goalkeeper was present, despite the fact that he had apologized the day before for not being with his father: “I would like to be present, but I am committed to my mission here. I am not a doctor, I could not really help much,” he said in an interview published on Friday by the newspaper Estadao.
At night, Kely shared a photo embracing the former Seleçao attacker in the hospital bed where he has been hospitalized since November 29, and wrote: “We are still here, in the fight and in the faith. One more night together.”
At the door of that center, the Albert Einstein Hospital, which gave no news about Pelé’s health, the climate was calm and there were only a few journalists, AFP found.
In its last medical report on Wednesday, the hospital reported that Pelé had a “progression” of the colon cancer he is facing and was receiving care for “kidney and heart dysfunction.”
That same day, the daughters of ‘O Rei’, three times world champion with Brazil (1958, 1962 and 1970), said that he would not return home for Christmas.
“Our Christmas at home was called off. We decided together with the doctors that, for various reasons, we’d better stay here, with all the care this new family [del hospital Albert] Einstein gives us,” Kely wrote on Instagram, along with a selfie taken with her sister Flavia at the hospital.
Pelé was initially admitted for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer detected in September last year, and to treat a respiratory infection derived from a recent covid infection, according to doctors and his family.