The legendary Brazilian soccer player Pelé would have been admitted to palliative care on Saturday, he who would no longer respond to chemotherapy treatment in connection with his colon cancer.
According to the daily Come on, the 82-year-old man’s doctors suspended chemotherapy to offer him pain-relieving treatment. He was admitted to Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital on Tuesday.
Pelé had been undergoing this treatment since he had surgery last September. At the beginning of the year, he was diagnosed with metastases to the intestine, lungs and liver.
The former striker is considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time. He scored 680 career club goals between 1956 and 1977, playing for Santos FC in Brazil and New York Cosmos.
He also won three World Cups with Brazil, in 1958, 1962 and 1970.
