Leonardo Ponzio was diagnosed with myocarditis after having coronavirus and will not be able to travel to the River preseason

River reported that Leonardo Ponzio He was diagnosed with myocarditis after being infected with coronavirus and will have to do sports rest in the country until his rehabilitation. The 39-year-old midfielder was available for the preseason with the rest of his teammates in the United States but will not finally pack his bags and will remain in Argentina.

The alarms went off in Núñez due to the unexpected result of Ponzio in the check-ups prior to returning to work. Yesterday the millionaire contingent met again at River Camp to be under the command of Marcelo Gallardo, who will command the team in Orlando, Florida. Tomorrow they will leave for the United States to begin with the tasks that will run until July 5.

In principle, Ponzio will remain between 15 or 20 days in rest until being evaluated again by the medical department of the institution. It is worth noting that the club chose the North American state to carry out the preseason because of the facilities it provides for the inoculation of vaccines against COVID-19. In other words, the experienced River Plate footballer will have to wait for the doses.

Ponzio caught the coronavirus just after the team’s elimination against Boca in the quarterfinals of the Professional League Cup. Although the captain’s test was negative before that Superclassic, was isolated in mid-May with a second group made up of Gonzalo Montiel, Alex Vigo, Lucas Beltrán and Flabián Londoño Bedoya, who could not participate in the historic match against Independiente Santa Fe for the Copa Libertadores in which Enzo Pérez stopped, due to lack of available goalkeepers.

A similar case had occurred in Boca, paradoxically just before a Superclásico: Colombian Edwin Cardona was diagnosed with myocarditis that sidelined him from the fields for almost two weeks. Then he recovered, the electrocardiograms yielded satisfactory results and he played again (today he competes in the Copa América with his team).

Ponzio had publicly warned that this would be his last year as a professional and he had advanced talks with the leadership to extend his relationship until December of this year (a situation similar to that of Javier Pinola). This imponderable would not modify the plans of the board chaired by Rodolfo D’Onofrio. “Let’s see how I’ll be in June. From here to what I have left, be it June or December, I don’t think it will go past December. This 2021 is my last year as a footballer “Leo declared in February.

In this way, Gallardo will deprive himself of having another of his figures at the beginning of the work, taking into account that there are many affected to the South American teams that compete in the Copa América that takes place in Brazil: Nicolás de la Cruz (Uruguay) , Franco Armani, Julián Álvarez, Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Robert Rojas and David Martínez (Paraguay). In addition, the particular case of Rafael Santos Borré (Colombia), whose contract expires on June 30.

THE RIVER COMMUNICATION:

“Leonardo Ponzio has been diagnosed with myocarditis due to the contagion of Covid and will have to rest sports in Argentina until his recovery.”

The good news at River Camp is that this morning all the swabs made to the squad and coaching staff were negative.

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