Updated On: 30 December, 2022 09:43 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The three-time World Cup winner had a colon tumour removed in September 2021 and neither his family, nor doctors, specified whether it had spread to other organs. He was recently under `elevated care` related to kidney and cardiac dysfunction

Brazilian football legend Pele and Portugal football Cristiano Ronaldo; (right) Brazilian football legend Pele and France football Kylian Mbappe. Pics/AFP
Arguably the greatest player to play football, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pele (82), breathed his last at a Sao Paulo hospital on Thursday after losing a prolonged battle against cancer.
The three-time World Cup winner had a colon tumour removed in September 2021 and neither his family, nor doctors, specified whether it had spread to other organs. He was recently under `elevated care` related to kidney and cardiac dysfunction.