Pele was released from a Sao Paulo hospital on Monday, his Brazilian doctors said, two days after the football 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 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.”