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Video: Pele continues recovery, undergoes physiotherapy in hospital

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Pele’s daughter Kely posted a video of him doing leg exercises and then shadow boxing with the camera.PHOTO: IAMKELYNASCIMENTO/INSTAGRAM

Football legend Pele continues to recover from colon surgery, with his family posting a video of the 80-year-old Brazilian smiling while undergoing physiotherapy in his Sao Paulo hospital room.

The former Santos, Brazil and New York Cosmos player had a tumour removed on Sept 4 and has been in and out of the intensive care unit  at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo in the days since.

His daughter Kely posted a video of him doing leg exercises and then shadow boxing with the camera on her Instagram feed.

He was attended by two physiotherapists, one of whom is Pele’s daughter.

“Today was two steps forward!” Kely wrote, in reference to a previous post warning fans her father’s recovery was often two steps forward and one step back.

The only player with three World Cup winner’s medals, Pele has suffered from hip problems for years and cannot walk unaided.

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His public appearances were already being reduced before the Covid-19 pandemic and since then he has made few unnecessary trips outside his house near Santos.

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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