Spain star Aitana Bonmatí is making good progress after recovering from viral meningitis and would possibly even be accessible for the world champion’s opening match on the UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2025, coach Montse Tomé mentioned Wednesday.
The 2-time Ballon d’Or winner’s participation within the event was doubtful final week when she was hospitalized after falling unwell with a fever late Friday, however she rejoined the squad Monday and took half in coaching Tuesday.
“Let’s see. Aitana is evolving positively,” Tomé mentioned the day earlier than Spain’s opening match towards Portugal. “Yesterday, she did a part of the coaching … I feel she spent quarter-hour on her personal and her progress may be very optimistic. For at this time’s coaching, she’ll do some duties with the workforce. She’s keen to play, however we’ll see what the medical companies are telling me. What issues is the participant’s well being and good situation, however her progress is optimistic.”
After Portugal, Spain additionally faces Belgium and Italy in Group B at UEFA Ladies’s Euro 2025.
The 27-year-old Bonmatí has gained the highest particular person award for girls’s soccer for the previous two years.
The Barcelona participant was key to Spain profitable the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup for its first main girls’s trophy. Spain additionally gained the inaugural 2024 Ladies’s Nations League, but it surely has by no means gained the European Championship.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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