Pelé’s eldest daughter, Kely Nascimento, shared with her followers photos of the former player in the last days of his life at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, in São Paulo. In a long text, she also thanked the medical team that took care of her father during his one-month stay at the site. The king of football died on December 29, 2022.
The images also show other children next to Pelé in the hospital room. Edson Arantes do Nascimento was undergoing palliative care after the worsening of his health due to colon cancer, diagnosed in September 2021. According to the certificate, death was caused by kidney and heart failure, bronchopneumonia and colon cancer. The wake was held on January 2, 2023, in Santos (SP), at Estádio Urbano Caldeira, Vila Belmiro.
“I live in New York, where all the best in the world is available, but I’m sure there isn’t another hospital where all of us: sons, daughters, granddaughters, grandsons, wife, in short, a big family, would have been so warmly welcomed and protected, for so long and with so much consideration. I know caring for Pelé is an honor but I also know that people don’t understand the debilitating pressure and demands that come with the privilege of caring for a king”, said Kely.
“At the moment when what none of us really believed would happen happened, at that moment when deep sadness mixed with the desperation to reach the closest family members before the news and the anxiety about what awaited us in the next moments, between drones and helicopters and cell phones that seemed to be alive and screaming, all of you from the other teams took on a position of protector not only of us and Pelé, but also of Edson’s spiritual and bodily integrity”, he added.
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