He Fluminense announced in the last hours that he removed the Brazilian playmaker from the team Paulo Henrique ‘Goose’former Sevilla player, after detecting “small myocarditis” in preseason medical examinations. Ganso, 35, will stay away from the squad’s physical activities and “will be re-evaluated in four weeks,” according to the Rio de Janeiro club in a note published on its social networks.
The club believes the inflammation is “probably” the result of a “bad flu” the player contracted in November last year, as this is the first time myocarditis has been identified since he came down with the ‘Flu’, six years earlier.
If the problem is not detected again in tests within a month, Ganso “will be able to return to training normally,” the Rio entity reported. Fluminense stressed that the former Brazilian international has no symptoms and will only be away from the team “as part of the treatment”, which will be carried out by the club’s Medical Department.
Ganso has been a professional soccer player for almost twenty years. The skilled creative trained at Santos, where he formed a successful partnership with a very young Neymar. Then he went to São Paulo, from where he jumped to Europe. In the Old Continent he defended the colors of Sevilla and French club Amiens, but he did not fully adapt and returned to Brazil in 2019 to sign for Fluminense. In the Rio squad, he regained his level, being an important part in achieving the Copa Libertadores title in 2023, the first in the history of the Tricolor Carioca.
Source: La Verdad

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