“I would like to be present, but I am committed to my mission here. I’m not a doctor, I really can’t help much,” he said in an interview published Friday by the daily Estado.
That same day, Kelly shared a photo of herself hugging her 82-year-old father in the hospital, captioning it “Another night together.”
On Wednesday, Albert Einstein Hospital, where the three-time World Cup winner is staying, announced that his colon cancer was showing “progression” and he needed “more comprehensive care to treat kidney and heart failure”. .
Earlier that day his daughters had announced that he would not be home for Christmas.