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Pele playing cards, smiling after surgery

Updated on: 26 September,2021 08:37 AM IST  |  Sao Paulo
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“He taught me how to play a card game and he is beating me hands down,” she added. On Wednesday, Nascimento had posted a video of the former Number 10 singing the anthem of Santos, his former club. 

Pele playing cards, smiling after surgery

Pele. Pic/AFP

Football legend Pele, 80, has taken “several steps” towards recovery after a colon operation three weeks ago, his daughter said Friday. 


“These last days, he has taken several steps,” Kely Nascimento said in a message on Instagram, with photos of the two of them playing cards, Pele smiling. “He taught me how to play a card game and he is beating me hands down,” she added. On Wednesday, Nascimento had posted a video of the former Number 10 singing the anthem of Santos, his former club. 


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