Pele, announced on his social networks a new hospitalization in Sao Paulo, after he was detected last year with colon cancer.
"Friends, as I am doing now every month, I go to the hospital to continue with the treatment, it is routine and I hope there is popcorn to attend the Super Bowl" (played last night in the United States, ed) ", posted on three times world soccer champion.
Pelé, aka Edson Arantes do Nascimento, later complained that his "friend", American football star Tom Brady, didn't play the Super Bowl again this year. Bay Buccaneers of the famous # 12 failed to make it to the final) and greeted his fans, thanking "for all the messages of affection".
At the beginning of September 2021, 81-year-old O Rei was operated on at the Israelite Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo for colon cancer.
After that surgery, he made several other hospitalizations, in some cases to undergo chemotherapy.
Last week Pele posted a photo of him cutting his hair accompanied by the text "don't you find me cute?", To refute the alarming rumors that had spread about his state of health.