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– –<\/span> Pele had colon cancer treatment in September 2021 after undergoing surgery to remove a tumour, and he required continuous care. <\/p>\n After being readmitted to the hospital at the end of November to reevaluate his cancer treatment, he was found to have a respiratory infection and was then transferred to palliative care when his body stopped responding to chemotherapy.<\/p>\n Pele died on\u00a0Thursday at the Albert Einstein Hospital\u00a0in Sao Paulo and his daughter, Kely Nascimento, confirmed the news on\u00a0Instagram<\/em>, writing: \u201cEverything we are is thanks to you. We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and labelled \u201cthe greatest\u201d by\u00a0FIFA,\u00a0he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century. <\/p>\n In 1999, he was named Athlete of the Century by the\u00a0International Olympic Committee\u00a0and was included in the\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0list of the\u00a0100 most important people of the 20th century. <\/p>\n – –<\/span> In 2000, Pel\u00e9 was voted\u00a0World Player of the Century\u00a0by the\u00a0International Federation of Football History & Statistics\u00a0(IFFHS) and was one of the two joint winners of the\u00a0FIFA Player of the Century. <\/p>\n His 1,279 goals in 1,363 games, which includes friendlies, is recognised as a\u00a0Guinness World Record.<\/p>\n SOURCE: www.Ghbase.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – – Pele had colon cancer treatment in September 2021 after undergoing surgery to remove a tumour, and he required continuous care. After being readmitted to the hospital at the end of November to reevaluate his cancer treatment, he was found to have a respiratory infection and was then transferred to palliative care when his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1904,862,863,16137,2680],"class_list":["post-1271452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brazilian","tag-dies","tag-footballer","tag-legendary","tag-pele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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