Midfielder Aitana Bonmati, Ballon d’Or winner for the final two years, has been hospitalized with viral meningitis lower than per week earlier than Spain start their Ladies’s Euro 2025 marketing campaign, coach Montse Tome stated.
The 27-year-old missed Friday’s 3-1 win over Japan in a pleasant as Spain continued constructing as much as their first Group B match in opposition to Portugal on July 3.
Bonmati shared an image of herself watching the match from a hospital mattress in an Instagram story.
“The medical doctors say that it’s managed. Speaking about meningitis may be scary however it’s managed,” Tome instructed reporters after the win in Leganes.
“Aitana might be admitted and there aren’t any deadlines but to know for the way lengthy (she might be absent).”
Barcelona‘s Bonmati, who additionally received the FIFA Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months award for 2023 and 2024, has scored 30 objectives for Spain in 78 appearances, enjoying a key function as they received the Ladies’s World Cup in 2023 and the Ladies’s Nations League final 12 months.
“Aitana, for us, is an important participant. We’ll await her so long as we will,” Tome added.
Spain, who even have Belgium and Italy of their group, have by no means made it to the ultimate of the continental championship, reaching the semi-finals solely as soon as in 1997.