SEVILLE, Spain — Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico was released Wednesday from an intensive care unit, five weeks after suffering a head injury following an accident with a loose horse.
Doctors said the PSG substitute goalkeeper will remain hospitalized and will continue to receive medical care in Seville. There was no timetable for when he would be able to leave the hospital.
Doctors have not released details about his injury.
Rico, 29, who previously played for Sevilla, was injured when he was going to a mass with his relatives and was hit by a loose horse.
The Sevillian goalkeeper will continue his recovery on the floor at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, where he is admitted after suffering an accident with a horse in the pilgrimage of El Rocío (Huelva) on May 28.
In statements to journalists after visiting him in the hospital, his wife, Alba Silva, has announced that the Paris Saint Germain goalkeeper has left the ICU on Tuesday and that they will now be able to “be with him 24 hours”, although there is still no forecast. when you might be discharged from the hospital.
Alba Silva has recalled the difficult almost month and a half that the family is going through, which she has thanked for having been with her “one hundred percent: that is the greatest thing and we are very happy,” she said.
The goalkeeper, trained in the Sevilla youth academy, in whose first team he was from the 2014-15 to the 2018-19 season, was on Saturday, May 27, called up by the French team for the penultimate game of the French league, which was playing in Strasbourg, where PSG drew 1-1 and became champion of the tournament.
The goalkeeper, after that game, moved to the village of El Rocío, where he had the accident for which he was evacuated on Sunday, May 28, to the Seville hospital, where he has been since then.
