Football: "Thank you to all those who send me good vibes", the reassuring message from Pelé

The King was not going to give up football in the middle of the World Cup.

The Brazilian Pelé, living legend of the round ball, sent thanks on Thursday for all the messages of support received after his hospitalization for a “routine visit” linked to the treatment of his cancer.

“Dear friends, I am in the hospital for my monthly visit.

It always warms the heart to receive positive messages like these,” Pelé wrote on Instagram in the caption of a photo showing his portrait projected on an illuminated tower in Qatar while the one next door wishes him a “prompt recovery” in English.

“Thank you to Qatar for this tribute, and to all those who send me good vibes,” added the 82-year-old former footballer.

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Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo said in its medical bulletin on Wednesday that he had "been hospitalized for a reassessment of the chemotherapy treatment followed after the detection of a colon tumor in September 2021".

“King” Pelé is in a private room in “stable clinical condition”, the establishment said.

The former number 10, who many consider the greatest footballer of all time and who is the only one to have lifted the world trophy three times (1958, 1962, 1970), regularly visits the hospital to undergo sessions of chemotherapy.

Pelé, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who celebrated his 82nd birthday "with good health", as he said himself on Instagram, in October, will therefore be able to follow the Brazilian Seleçao for the rest of the FIFA Cup. world.

Brazil, already qualified for the round of 16, plays this Friday against Cameroon.