The Brazilian hospital taking care of football legend Pele says his condition is improving as he undergoes temporary kidney treatment.
The Albert Einstein hospital said the 74-year-old is "lucid" and breathing normally without any support.
Pele has been hospitalised since Monday because of a urinary tract infection and had surgery to remove kidney stones on Nov. 13.
On Thursday, Pele say he was "doing fine" and denied that he was put into an intensive care unit. Instead, he and his staff had said he was only transferred to a special unit where he could have more privacy while being treated and monitored.
Pele's spokesman and personal aide, Jose Fornos Rodrigues, did not comment on Pele's health on Friday, saying the information was in the hospital's statement.
"Pele's clinical condition is better," the hospital said in its latest report, adding that the former forward was not under any "support therapies" or receiving additional medication to keep him stable.
The hospital said doctors continued to administer intravenous kidney treatment, a type of hemodialysis to filter waste particles from his blood.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.