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Pele leaves hospital after prostate operation
Sao Paulo, May 11
Brazilian football legend Pele has been discharged from the Sao Paulo
hospital where he was treated since last week and underwent a prostate
surgery.
In a two-line communique, the Albert Einstein Hospital on Sunday said that Pele "was discharged", reports Efe.
Dozens
of Brazilian and foreign reporters and many fans of the "Athlete of the
Century" waited for hours for their idol. But Pele was able to leave
the hospital without being spotted by them.
Last Friday, the
hospital announced that Pele showed "no evidence of tumours" after a
"benign" hyperplasia operation that proceeded "without complications and
with good recovery."
The legendary 74-year-old football icon
last Tuesday underwent a "transurethral resection of the prostate" to
correct hyperplasia, an enlargement of the prostate which causes urine
retention.
Pele, who since the time he was an active athlete has
had just one kidney, remained in the hospital for 16 days in late 2014
because of a urinary tract infection that cropped up after he was
operated on for kidney stones.
"The King" scored a total of 77
goals in 91 games for Brazil during a career that included three World
Cup titles and he notched a total of 1,281 goals during his stellar
career.