“We love you to infinity, rest in peace,” Kely Nascimento wrote on Instagram, a post illustrated with a photo of the folded hands of his family members resting on that of the former footballer at Albert Hospital. -Einstein from Sao Paulo, where he had been admitted a month ago.
Pelé, king of scorers and nightmare of statisticians
The hospital said in a statement that the death was caused by “multiple organ failure”.
The only footballer to have won the World Cup three times (1958, 1962 and 1970), Pelé, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was elected athlete of the century by the International Olympic Committee in 1999.
The announcement of his death is a shock for all football fans, eleven days following the end of the World Cup in Qatar, and just over two years following that of Diego Maradona.
Throughout the tournament, the “king” had published from the room of the Albert-Einstein hospital where he had admitted on November 29 messages on social networks, encouraging Brazil or congratulating Messi on his “deserved” coronation with the Argentina once morest France.
At Christmas time, his daughters posted photos of the almost-entire family gathered around the footballing legend on Instagram, expressing their gratitude as messages of support poured in from around the world.
Last Friday, Kely Nascimento published a moving photo of her tenderly hugging her father lying in his hospital bed. We only saw part of Pelé’s face in this photo, which was wearing nasal cannulas for respiratory assistance.
