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Pele’s daughter published a photo of the Brazilian football legend from his hospital bed in São Paulo on Friday, December 23, 2022, embracing him, with the words “one more night together”.
In the photo, Kelly Cristina Nascimento hugs her 82-year-old father, who only has one side of his face visible in the photo.
Pele suffers from worsening cancer in addition to kidney and heart problems.
“We are still here, in struggle and in faith. Another night together,” Nascimento wrote with the photo, which she posted on Instagram, around eleven o’clock in the evening, Friday, December 23, 2022 local time.
On Wednesday, the Albert Einstein Hospital, where the three-time World Cup winner is being treated, announced that his colon cancer had “worsened” and that Pele needed “more comprehensive care for kidney and heart failure”.
Minutes earlier, Nascimento and Flavia Arantes, another of Pele’s daughters, had announced on Instagram that their father would be spending Christmas in the hospital.
On Sunday, Nascimento posted a photo of Arantes massaging their father’s left foot while he watched the World Cup final in Qatar on TV.
After the match, Pele congratulated Lionel Messi on his “deserved” victory in the World Cup after Argentina beat France on penalties.
Pele watched his compatriot Neymar equal his number by scoring the 77th goal in the Brazil shirt, after he opened the scoring in the 105th minute of the first extra period against Croatia in the quarter-finals, before losing on penalties.
Pele was hospitalized in São Paulo on November 29 for what his medical team described as a re-evaluation of his chemotherapy treatment since he underwent surgery to remove a colon polyp in September 2021.