The Syrian media revealed the death of the first Syrian athlete as a result of infection with the "Corona emerging" virus, after the media based its report on the orientation of the "High Committee for Muay Thai in Syria", and through its official page on the social networking site "Facebook" to the obituary of the player International and coach Mohamed Youssef (52 years old), following the impact of coronavirus infection.
The website of the newspaper, "Bridge", stated that the death of Mohamed Youssef, known as "Maestro", puts him on the list of the first deaths among sports players in Syria, as a result of his infection with the "Corona Junior Covid-19" virus.
According to the newspaper’s website, Mohamed Youssef is the first to introduce a "kickboxing" game to Syria in 1992, and one of the founders of it, where he worked on training and graduating a number of heroes in this sport, and the "Maestro" is also the first to enter the game "Muay Thai" Thai to Syria also in 1995.
He drew the Syrian newspaper’s website to Mohamed Youssef’s 40-year-old sporting career, which he started in 1980 in the game of judo, before resorting in 1985 to Chinese boxing, and he followed her to go to Lebanon in 1992 with the goal of engaging in “kickboxing” game, in A station that represented a turning point in his sporting career, as it came as a cornerstone before moving to Thai sports, "Muay Thai", during which he obtained in the year 2009 the "International Master" certificate.
It is noteworthy that Syria is currently witnessing a noticeable increase in the numbers of people infected with the "emerging corona" virus, which affected a number of athletes, the most prominent of which was the injury of seven players and administrators of the first Syrian national football team.