Midfielder Aitana Bonmati has joined up with Spain's Euro 2025 squad successful Switzerland aft having attraction for viral meningitis.
The 27-year-old missed the 3-1 affable triumph implicit Japan successful Leganes past week aft missing grooming and being taken to hospital successful Madrid to beryllium treated.
Bonmati, who has won the past 2 Ballon d'Ors, was discharged from hospital connected Sunday but is improbable to play successful Spain's opening radical crippled against Portugal successful Bern connected Thursday.
"[Bonmati] is truthful important for america and we volition hold for her, immoderate happens, until the end," said Spain manager Montse Tome.
The European Championship starts connected Wednesday, with World Cup winners Spain the favourites to triumph the tournament.
Barcelona's Bonmati has scored 30 goals successful 78 games for her state and was a cardinal subordinate of the broadside that won the 2023 World Cup and 2024 Nations League.
Meningitis is an corruption of the protective membranes that situation the encephalon and spinal cord and tin beryllium superior if not treated quickly.
Viral meningitis is little superior than the rarer bacterial variant and astir cases amended connected their ain wrong 7 to 10 days and tin often beryllium treated astatine home.
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