Great soccer legend and poster face Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly known as Pele is dead at age 82. His death was announced on his Instagram page.
Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital, where Pele was undergoing treatment, said he died at 3:27 p.m. "due to multiple organ failures resulting from the progression of colon cancer associated with his previous medical condition.
Pele had been undergoing chemotherapy since he had a tumor removed from his colon in September 2021.
He also had difficulty walking unaided since an unsuccessful hip operation in 2012. In February 2020, on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic, his son Edinho said Pele's ailing physical state had left him depressed.
Pele, whose given name was , joined Santos in 1956 and turned the small coastal club into one of the most famous names in football.
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