Spanish soccer star Aitana Bonmatí has been hospitalized with viral meningitis just days before the start of the Women’s Euros on Wednesday, her manager Montse Tomé said.
The 27-year-old had a fever on Thursday evening and was taken to the hospital on Friday when her condition did not improve, according to Tomé.
“She is the first to authorize me to say this and the first who wants it to be said: she has viral meningitis,” Tomé said in a press conference Friday following Spain’s 3-1 friendly victory over Japan, which Bonmatí missed.
“The word is definitely scary, but the doctor tells me it is under control,” she continued. “We don’t know the timeframe, we don’t know anything else.”
On Friday night, Bonmatí posted a picture of herself watching the game against Japan from a hospital bed, with a cannula in her arm.