{"id":393400,"date":"2018-01-20T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393400"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T13:20:33","slug":"pele-resting-home-not-hospitalized-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/pele-resting-home-not-hospitalized-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pele resting at home not hospitalized – Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brazil legend Pele is resting at home according to his spokesperson, who dismissed reports he had been taken to hospital 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 – withdrew and the FWA said he was being monitored by doctors.<\/p>\n
But his spokesperson called reports of his hospitalisation “fake news”.<\/p>\n
“He just didn’t want to make a long and stressful trip to London, in and out of who knows how many planes and airports,” said Jose Fornos Rodrigues. “That’s all.”<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brazil legend Pele is resting at home according to his spokesperson, who dismissed reports he had been taken to hospital 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":393211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[2901,337,16273,338],"yoast_head":"\n