SAO PAULO (REUTERS) - Football legend Pele continues to recover from colon surgery, with his family posting a video of the 80-year-old Brazilian smiling while undergoing physiotherapy in his Sao Paulo hospital room.

The former Santos, Brazil and New York Cosmos player had a tumour removed on Sept 4 and has been in and out of the intensive care unit at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo in the days since.