Brazilian Soccer Star Pele Passes Away | Footballer Pele No More | English News LIVE | News18 Live


Brazilian Soccer Star Pele Passes Away | Footballer Pele No More | English News LIVE | News18 Live

Pelé, the Brazilian soccer icon who brought the World Cup trophy to his home country three times, becoming an international superstar and the highest-paid team athlete in the world at the time, has died. He was 82.

His daughter Kely Nascimento announced his death Thursday on Instagram.

Pelé’s health had been deteriorating as he aged. Doctors at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo said in late December that he was receiving “elevated care” related to “kidney and cardiac dysfunctions” stemming from the cancer he had been fighting for more than a year. He also had a respiratory infection, and his family said he would be staying in the hospital over the Christmas holiday.

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This news story originally appeared at Health News - on 27 January 2023