Brazilian football great Pele was discharged on Thursday from the hospital where he had been admitted four days earlier for treatment for colon cancer, the establishment announced.
The 81-year-old was “in good and stable clinical condition,” Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo said in a statement.
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Considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, Pele is the only player in history to have won three World Cups (1958, 1962 and 1970).
Known as “O Rey,” or “The King” in Brazil, he will continue to visit the hospital at least once a month for check-ups and chemotherapy for a colon tumor detected last September. Will continue, according to his family.
In February, the ailing Pele spent two weeks in the hospital undergoing treatment for cancer complicated by a urinary tract infection.
Prior to his cancer diagnosis, in which Pele was hospitalized for a month last year, the former Santos and Brazil national star was hospitalized for kidney stones in 2019 and urinary tract infections in 2014 .
At the time, he had to undergo dialysis on his only remaining kidney – the other was removed in the 1970s due to an injury.
Pele was born in Edson Arantes do Nascimento, his mobility has also been reduced by hip problems, which have forced him to use a wheelchair.
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