Pele was not hospitalized, he gains strength in a home environment

Three -time world champion in the Brazilian national football team, Pele was not hospitalized, now he is at home.

Pele was supposed to be present at dinner in his honor in one of the London hotels on Sunday. On Friday, the Association of Football Journalists said that the 77-year-old Brazilian would not appear at the event, as he fainted due to exhaustion and was taken to one of the hospitals of Brazil, where a series of tests passed.

“Pele simply did not want to make a long and stressful trip to London,” the representative of Brazilian Jose Foreman Rodriguez told Reuters . “It is not known how many times he had to change the plane and in what number of airports to visit. That's all.”

The representative of the living legend emphasized that Pele is resting at home in Santos.

In recent years, Pele was treated for kidney disease, and also underwent surgery on the hip joint. On December 1, he attended the drawing of the drawing of the final part of the World Cup - 2018 in Moscow, appearing on the stage of the Kremlin Palace in a wheelchair.

Pele is the best football player of the twentieth century according to the International Football Federation (FIFA). In 1999, the International Olympic Committee recognized the Brazilian athlete for a century, although he had never participated in the Olympic Games.

Pele, who is the best scorer in world football history, scored 1281 goals in 1363 matches. At the club level, he played for the Brazilian "Santos" (1956-1974) and the American "New York Cosmos" (1975-1977).