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On December 9, a few days after facing Spain against Israel at the FIBA ​​Window held in Valencia,

Gal Mekel fractured the second metacarpal in his left hand

during a Eurocup match against Germani Brescia.

After the operation, the Israeli base hastened his return to the courts, pure necessity for a Unicaja completely adrift in recent weeks - he

has lost 12 of the last 13 games

-, in which he has even dismissed his coach, Luis Casimiro , replaced by the Greek Fotis Katsikaris.

However, Mekel's return will have to wait.

This Sunday the Malaga club announced that the former NBA

(played in Mavericks and Pelicans)

must be at least three more months out due to complications derived from the coronavirus.

It is not the first time that an elite athlete has suffered problems due to covid, despite the fact that the most serious cases occur in people with other health problems.

The Israeli suffers, exactly, a

"pulmonary thromboembolism derived from covid"

.

Although he has already overcome the virus, it has caused this disease, which requires treatment that prevents him from making physical efforts of the intensity that are needed in professional basketball during that time.

"I have had bad luck, first with my hand, then with the coronavirus. Unfortunately, I am going to lose a little more time this season," said Mekel, who arrived last March at the Malaga club, specifying the " complications with

a blood clot in the lung

, as a result of the coronavirus itself. "

The serious consequences of the disease even in top-level athletes are striking and worrying.

Diego Costa

suffered a "spontaneous deep vein thrombosis in his right leg", for which he missed three weeks of competition.

Also surprising was the case of Yuri Berchiche, diagnosed with covid-19 on October 9, with no apparent symptoms.

On the 22nd of that same month, having complied with the corresponding protocol, he returned to training and then played up to three practically complete matches until the end of November.

However, afterwards, against Getafe and Celta, he had to be substituted before the 50th minute of the game because he felt unwell, dizzy and without strength.

Paul Pogba, among others, also confessed the problems that the coronavirus left him later: "He couldn't run."

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