{"id":70711,"date":"2014-12-02T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=70711"},"modified":"2014-12-02T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:45:38","slug":"pele-brazil-legend-continues-improve-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=70711","title":{"rendered":"Pele: Brazil legend continues to improve in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Brazil legend Pele has left intensive care as he continues to recover from a urinary infection.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time World Cup winner was admitted to Sao Paulo&#8217;s Albert Einstein Hospital on 24 November.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the hospital said the 74-year-old &#8220;is doing well without medical complications&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His kidney function will be assessed again on Wednesday but he is &#8220;lucid and eating well&#8221;, can walk around his room and is receiving &#8220;semi-intensive care&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A World Cup winner in 1958, 1962 and 1970, Pele was initially discharged from hospital on 13 November after surgery to remove kidney stones.<\/p>\n<p>Widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, he scored a world-record 1,281 goals in 1,363 games during his 21-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Capped 91 times by Brazil, scoring 77 goals, he was named Fifa&#8217;s Player of the Century in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>He made 14 appearances at World Cup finals, scoring 12 goals, and was awarded the Fifa Golden Ball as the best player at the 1970 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil legend Pele has left intensive care as he continues to recover from a urinary infection. The three-time World Cup winner was admitted to Sao Paulo&#8217;s Albert Einstein Hospital on 24 November. A statement from the hospital said the 74-year-old &#8220;is doing well without medical complications&#8221;. His kidney function will be assessed again on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-70711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}