Midfielder Aitana Bonmati, Ballon d’Or winner for the final two years, has been hospitalized with viral meningitis lower than every week earlier than Spain start their Girls’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 towards 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 gained the FIFA Girls’s Participant of the 12 months award for 2023 and 2024, has scored 30 targets for Spain in 78 appearances, enjoying a key position as they gained the Girls’s World Cup in 2023 and the Girls’s Nations League final yr.
“Aitana, for us, is a vital 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.