Serious symptoms chasing football players after recovering from Corona .. Messi hit

Few football players have suffered from the repercussions of the Corona virus and its direct impact on their lives, but signs of the long-term effects of the pandemic are beginning to appear clearly in the world of football, as one study indicated that first-tier players were affected in the long term by this deadly virus.

Several cases of the side effects of "Covid-19" have emerged, in some of them preventing the injured player from returning to the green rectangle as soon as a negative result is issued.

German Joshua Kimmich, Bayern Munich midfielder, who refused to start receiving the anti-Corona vaccine, was absent from the stadiums for two months due to lung damage, while the Italian Juventus playmaker, Argentine Paulo Dybala, said that he suffered from “shortness of breath” when he returned in 2020 after testing positive. He contracted the virus.

The condition of the Argentine Lionel Messi, the French star of Paris Saint-Germain, who was recently crowned with the Ballon d'Or for the seventh time in his career, did not differ from his peers, acknowledging that he needed "more time than expected to recover" after he was infected with Corona during the holidays he spent in his hometown in Rosario.

But, other than these side effects of Corona, the professional football world witnessed more serious cases, as Newcastle goalkeeper Karl Darlow spent three days in hospital, while Montpellier’s ward Salomon “Junior” Sambi was transferred to the intensive care room, and Jean-Kevin Augustan player did not start Nantes has been with the first team since 2019 due to his long-term inability to recover from "Covid-19".

In the same context, many coaches have expressed their concerns in recent weeks, about the short and medium-term effects of Corona.

"When players have the virus and then come back, it's not just a tap of the fingers. Even if they feel it, it takes some time," said Didier Deschamps, the coach of the France team that won the World Cup 2018 in Russia.

Researchers from the German Universities of Dusseldorf and Reading in English revealed the results of a study that included 257 players in the German and Italian football leagues who returned to the stadiums after suffering with “Covid-19”, indicating a low level of performance of the players as well.

The study found that the success rate of players in passes decreased by up to five percent and that the virus affected players over the age of 30 most seriously.

She also indicated that the clubs that witnessed the largest number of "Covid-19" injuries, achieved worse results than their competitors after the recovery of their players.

“So far, the results indicate a lasting change in player capabilities," said James Reed, director of the Department of Economics at the University of Reading and a co-author of the study.

"The majority of players have not been vaccinated (until the study), and this is still a complicating factor," he added.

A "longer rehabilitation" period from the flu,

and in a different and more dangerous context, some reports indicated that some players suffered from inflammation of the heart, most notably the Gabonese duo Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the Arsenal striker, and Mario Lemina, the French player of Nice.

These two players left the ranks of their country without being able to participate with him in the African Nations Cup in Cameroon (he was eliminated from the final price against Burkina Faso on penalties) to recover from Corona.

For his part, the medical director of the French Football Federation, Emmanuel Orant, indicated that there is no confirmed link between the virus and an increased risk of heart disease in football players.

Orant found in December 2020 that 2.2 percent of the 350 players who tested positive for the virus had a heart problem.

"(The cases) were all mild and disappeared within a few weeks, and it is impossible to say that they are all related to +Covid-19+," the French doctor told AFP, stressing at the same time that the players needed a longer period to recover from Corona than they usually need to recover from. flu.

He continued, "We know that the virus has a short-term effect on the respiratory system" and "with influenza, we can return players to the field as soon as they improve. But (with Corona) we need more time in the rehabilitation process."

Since the vast majority of cases in European countries are now caused by the novel omicron, the effects are expected to be much less severe.

Orant added, "We can no longer talk about Omicron in the same way we talked about the first injuries, which were much worse," and concluded, "Today, almost all players have no symptoms."

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