Brazil football great Pelé said on Monday that he was recovering in hospital from surgery to remove a tumour from his colon.
Pelé, the only player to win three World Cups, did not say whether the tumour was malignant but the 80-year-old former Santos and New York Cosmos player said he was feeling good.
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“Last Saturday I underwent surgery to remove a suspicious lesion in the right colon,” he wrote in a social media post. “The tumour was identified during the tests I mentioned last week.”
The Albert Einstein hospital in São Paulo said in a statement that they were keeping Pelé in intensive care but expected to transfer him to a …