The 80-year-old is being kept in intensive care for a while after undergoing an operation this week
Brazil icon Pele says his recovery from an operation is going well.
The 80-year-old went under the knife to remove a tumour from his colon last week.
The three-time World Cup winner was admitted to the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo at the end of August after the tumour was discovered during routine examinations.