Pelè's family gathered on Christmas Eve in the San Paolo hospital to be close to the football legend , hospitalized for about a month for kidney and heart problems also linked to the worsening of colon cancer.

Daughter Kely Nascimento posted a photo of Pele's wife, Marcia Aoki, and other family members gathered at the Einstein hospital on social media, but the sample is not visible in the image: « Almost all of us. Happy Christmas. Gratitude, love, togetherness, family. The essence of Christmas. We thank you all for all the love and light you send us ,” she wrote.

His son Edinho , who coaches a soccer team in Parana, also arrived at the medical center on Christmas Eve, where he joined his sisters Flavia and Kely and posted a photo on Instagram that shows him holding the soccer star's hand , with the caption: " Father... My strength is yours ".

The hospital announced on Wednesday that his colon cancer was showing "progression" and that Pele needed "more extensive treatment for kidney and heart failure" . On the same day, his daughters announced that he would not be coming home for Christmas, so the family decided to go to the hospital to spend the holiday together.

(Unioneonline/L)

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