Lionel Messi spoke for the first time about his struggle with a dangerous disease that took the lives of millions of people around the world. Due to his own ambition, the convalescent returned to the football field too quickly, which resulted in his further complications.
- At the beginning of the year, Leo Messi contracted the coronavirus
- The disease had an impact on his body. The footballer had health problems, he was also unable to train
- What traces of COVID-19 left in the body by Messi told in an interview for Argentinean television
- More current information can be found on the Onet homepage.
Leo Messi in an interview with the Argentine television TYC Sports talked about the backstage of the disease, which he contracted in January this year together with four other players of the French club Paris Saint-Germain. Spaniards Sergio Rico and Juan Bernat and French Nathan Bitumazala were also among those with a text positive for COVID-19.
— The coronavirus left me with serious ramifications. I couldn’t train. I came back and for a month and a half I couldn’t even run because the disease devastated my lungs — the footballer relates in an interview with TYC Sports.
Breathing problems caused by the coronavirus are quite common. It affects about 80 percent. patients who have defeated COVID-19. Changes in lung tissue were detected in some of the survivors, and respiratory efficiency deteriorated in many of them. The health consequences of infection with the virus also include a number of other symptoms, from diabetes to the so-called brain fog. Collectively, these symptoms are known as long covid.
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“It killed me and the entire cloakroom”
As the Argentine footballer notes, he was not afraid of the disease itself, but he was nervous about the interruption in football. Before he even recovered, he started training lightly, but as he says, it was only worse. He wanted to run to train and kick the ball again, but his condition only worsened.
In an interview, Messi mentioned that it was not the break in training that was the biggest disappointment for him this season, but the game of his team and the elimination from the semi-finals of the Champions League. — Later, when we were halfway to the top, we lost to Real Madrid and that killed me and the entire dressing room, all of Paris — the footballer tells.
COVID-19 – getting sick
According to the latest data, over 19 million people fell ill with COVID-529 worldwide, and 6,29 million died. The largest number of deaths was recorded in the USA, India and Brazil.
In Poland, until May 31, the coronavirus was confirmed in a total of 6 million 007 thousand. 584 people. 116 died as a result of the disease. 318 Poles.
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