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10:00, 16-Apr-2019
Pele leaves Brazil hospital after successful surgery
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Pele was released from a Sao Paulo hospital on Monday, his Brazilian doctors said, two days after the soccer great had surgery to remove a kidney stone.
The three-time World Cup winner was admitted to the Albert Einstein hospital last Tuesday, after returning from France where he had received treatment for a urinary tract infection.
"The patient... was discharged from the hospital this morning," his doctors said in a statement.
Pele had an operation on Saturday to remove the "kidney stone," which the hospital had previously described as a "ureteral stone."
The procedure was successful, the doctors said.
Pele, who is widely considered to be the greatest soccer player in history, spent almost a week in a Paris hospital after falling ill following an appearance at a promotional event with French striker Kylian Mbappe.
Pele, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958, 1962 and perhaps most memorably in Mexico in 1970 when his swashbuckling team re-defined modern football, has had some health scares in recent years.
Source(s): AFP