Beach soccer coach Mohamed Al-Mazmi began yesterday the quarantine period to recover from the Corona virus, after medical tests confirmed his infection, due to mixing with people carrying the virus.
Mohamed Al Mazmi told Emirates Today: "The first stages of treatment began for 14 days, in one of the places specially designed for the carriers of the virus, and I hope that the virus will turn from positive to negative."
The team coach added: "I got sick by mixing with someone who was a carrier of the virus. We used to train together daily before breakfast."
He pointed out: “I felt some pain, fever and dry cough with constant and severe coughing, I thought that it was only transient fatigue, and most likely I was suffering from a cold, and I completely ruled out that it was related to the Coronavirus, especially since I am a sportsman and I always maintain daily training. "So I decided to do the necessary analyzes, and I discovered that I was pregnant with this disease."
Al-Mazmi is the third athlete to be infected with the Corona virus, after the Emirates Club player Mohamed Jamal, and the administrator of the youth and youth volleyball teams at Al-Nasr Club, Ghanem Al-Taheri, who died due to infection with the virus, after he was previously suffering from asthma.
"Frankly, the symptoms of this virus are strong for any healthy person, because despite my being athletic, I feel severe pain that the elderly or those with certain other diseases may not have, so my advice to everyone is to avoid mixing until we cross that difficult stage," Mazmi said. .
He drew: «I tell everyone, go ahead and do not leave the houses for any reason whatsoever, mixing with the closest people around you may be harmful without feeling, I hope that everyone will feel the difficulty of this disease and deal with it with great caution, and this advice was given to everyone who called to check on me, and the opportunity to convey it Via the media from a person who is HIV positive. ”
He added: "I am confident that I can overcome the infection that is causing global panic, and I would like to extend my thanks to those who cared for me medically. The Emirates has provided a global medical and humanitarian model to be followed in how to deal with this epidemic, and the medical equipment that makes the patient safe."
And the coach of the beach national football team had a professional experience with Hungarian club Siofec (Beniass SE) for one season, in the first professional experience with European clubs.
Al Mazmi achieved great successes during his career with the beach soccer team.