Under contract until 2024, the 29-year-old Parisian porter should no longer be able to play football.
The end of the tunnel for Sergio Rico? Victim of an accident on May 28, in Andalusia, the 29-year-old Parisian porter had been trampled by a mule. Since then, worry. And now the good news. After spending more than a month in intensive care, including 19 days in a coma, Rico was admitted to another hospital ward in Seville, as we learned at the weekend. “It’s progressing by leaps and bounds“, savored his companion Alba Silva, with the Spanish media. Evoking a “miraculous survival», the website The Athletic looks back on the sequence of events and reports that “if the wound had been half a centimeter deep, he would have died instantly“. Despite complications along the way, the former Sevilla and Tottenham player does not suffer from any neurological sequelae. He now breathes on his own, he can talk and even walk. “He lost more than 20 kg, each week in intensive care resulting in a loss of muscle capacity of around 30%“, reports the American site.
Last but not least, The Athletic ensures that the objective is to allow Sergio Rico to leave within two weeks. An exit that will be subject to new examinations. If necessary, he will be able to rest at his home in Seville. “A return to the field is unlikely“However, slip our colleagues, recalling that Rico had left to extend until 2027, with an option for one more year, before the accident. Knowing that Keylor Navas will not be retained, PSG is now looking for a new number 2 according to the latest indiscretions of the newspaper The team . Recruited in 2019, Sergio Rico played 24 matches in goal for Paris Saint-Germain, including the C1 semi-final won against Leipzig in 2020, in Lisbon.
