Former Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento 'Pelé', admitted to a hospital since last week, thanked Kylian Mbappé on Thursday for his support and celebrated the French striker's scoring records at the World Cup in Qatar.
"Thank you, Mbappé. I'm happy to see you break another of my records in this World Cup, my friend!" Pelé, 82, said on his social networks, in response to a message from the Paris Saint-Germain attacker. in which he asked for prayers for his speedy recovery.
The three-time world champion, undergoing treatment for colon cancer, has been admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital in the city of Sao Paulo since November 29, where he is recovering satisfactorily from a lung infection, according to the latest medical bulletin.
According to his doctors, the former Santos and Cosmos striker was hospitalized to assess a change in the chemotherapy treatment he has undergone since a colon tumor was removed in September 2021.
Days later, they reported that he also suffered from a respiratory infection. The infection arose after the former soccer player contracted covid-19 about a month ago, according to his daughters.
His daughters have also denied press reports according to which Pelé is no longer responding to chemotherapy treatment, so his doctors decided to suspend it and go to palliative care.
For his part, Mbappé, champion in Russia 2018, has shown on various occasions that he feels great admiration for Pelé. In Qatar 2022, the French star has already scored five goals, bringing his goalscoring tally in the World Cups to nine, thus becoming the player with the most goals in World Cups before the age of 24, a record that was held of Pele (7).
