{"id":9747,"date":"2020-02-14T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:19:26","slug":"pele-speaks-on-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/pele-speaks-on-health-issues\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Pele Speaks On &#8220;Health Issues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brazilian legend Pele has came out and said his health issues were &#8220;normal for people of my age&#8221; since his son claimed he was reluctant to leave his house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pele&#8217;s son Edinho said the 79 year old was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; because he needed a frame to assist him when walking because of his hip problems. But Pele, the only player to ever win 3 wold cups, has came out and said: &#8220;I am good. I continue to accept my physical limitations in the best way possible but I intend to keep the ball rolling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pele scored a record 1,281 goals in 1,363 appearances for club and country during his career, including 77 goals in 91 appearances for Brazil.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/onesport\/cps\/480\/cpsprodpb\/148F2\/production\/_110901248_hi059869389.jpg\" alt=\"Pele being helped out of a wheelchair in 2019\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pele in 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His health over the past few years has slightly worried a few fans, with him having an infection last year and having prostate surgery in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the claims from his son, friends of the legend have said that January 2020 has been the busiest in years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not avoiding fulfilling the commitments in my always busy schedule,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have good days and bad days. That is normal for people of my age. I am not afraid, I am determined, confident in what I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian legend Pele has came out and said his health issues were &#8220;normal for people of my age&#8221; since his son claimed he was reluctant to leave his house. Pele&#8217;s son Edinho said the 79 year old was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; because he needed a frame to assist him when walking because of his hip problems. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064,1],"tags":[971,909,1425,2066,948,2358,2068],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-news","category-uncategorized","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-news","tag-other-football-news","tag-pele"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}