Three-time world champion in football, 82-year-old 

could not beat colon cancer.

This is reported by Reuters.

It is noted that the treatment of the disease stopped giving results, the doctors decided to suspend the chemotherapy.

Pele was put on palliative care: doctors are only trying to ease the pain and other symptoms of the "King of Football" disease.

We will remind that the mass media wrote that Pele 

, heart problems and confusion.

Against this background, a decision was made on his emergency hospitalization.

Later, Pele himself 

that he was in the hospital with a planned monthly visit.

• Pele won the World Cup three times as part of the Brazilian national team (1958, 1962, 1970).

  He played for such clubs as "Santos" and "New York Cosmos".

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