{"id":60925,"date":"2022-12-04T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60925"},"modified":"2022-12-04T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T09:36:58","slug":"brazil-football-legend-pele-feels-strong-after-hospitalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60925","title":{"rendered":"Brazil football legend Pele feels \u2018strong\u2019 after hospitalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2018I\u2019m strong, with a lot of hope,\u2019 the legendary former Brazilian team player and three-time World Cup winner said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian football great Pele says he feels \u201cstrong\u201d, after he was hospitalised and diagnosed with a respiratory infection earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m strong, with a lot of hope and I follow my treatment as usual,\u201d Pele\u00a0said\u00a0in a Saturday post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old football legend urged fans to remain \u201ccalm and positive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of faith in God and every message of love I receive from you all over the world keeps me full of energy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, doctors said Pele \u2014 whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento \u2014 was\u00a0recovering and in stable condition\u00a0following the diagnosis. Pele, who sustained swelling and cardiac issues after his hospital admission this week, was specifically diagnosed with bronchopneumonia, ESPN Brasil previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pele\u2019s daughter, Kely Nascimento, told the outlet her father had initially been hospitalised to regulate his medication related to his oncology treatments.<\/p>\n<p>In a report on Saturday, medical staff at the Albert Einstein Hospital said Pele responded well to treatment for a respiratory infection diagnosed after his hospitalisation and that his condition had not worsened in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is still undergoing treatment and remains in stable condition,\u201d his doctors said.<\/p>\n<p>Pele\u2019s latest statement on his health came hours after the daily Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported the retired footballer, who is\u00a0battling cancer, is now receiving palliative \u2014 or \u201cend of life\u201d \u2014 care after his body stopped responding to chemotherapy\u00a0following a surgery\u00a0to remove a suspected colon tumour last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>Aljazeera.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I\u2019m strong, with a lot of hope,\u2019 the legendary former Brazilian team player and three-time World Cup winner said. Brazilian football great Pele says he feels \u201cstrong\u201d, after he was hospitalised and diagnosed with a respiratory infection earlier this week. \u201cI\u2019m strong, with a lot of hope and I follow my treatment as usual,\u201d Pele\u00a0said\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[5194,5311,5312],"class_list":["post-60925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cancer","tag-pele","tag-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}