{"id":393209,"date":"2018-01-19T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393209"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:47:50","slug":"brazil-legend-pele-hospitalized-collapsing-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/brazil-legend-pele-hospitalized-collapsing-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil legend Pele hospitalized after ‘collapsing with exhaustion’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brazil legend Pele is in hospital after collapsing on Thursday with exhaustion.<\/p>\n
The 77-year-old was due to travel to London this weekend for a dinner held in his honour by the Football Writers Association (FWA).<\/p>\n
Pele – the only player to win three World Cups – “has undergone a series of tests which appear to point to severe exhaustion”, said the FWA.<\/p>\n
“He is on fluids while doctors monitor his recovery. Thankfully there is no suggestion of anything more serious.”<\/p>\n
Pele has been taken to hospital for\u00a0kidney and prostate problems\u00a0in recent years.<\/p>\n
Widely regarded as the\u00a0greatest player of all time, he scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 appearances during his 21-year career, including 77 goals in 91 appearances for Brazil.<\/p>\n
He helped his country win the 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cups and was named Fifa’s Player of the Century.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brazil legend Pele is in hospital after collapsing on Thursday with exhaustion. The 77-year-old was due to travel to London this weekend for a dinner held in his honour by the Football Writers Association (FWA). Pele – the only player to win three World Cups – “has undergone a series of tests which appear to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":393211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[2901,16273],"yoast_head":"\n