Sergio Rico continues in serious condition at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville. The Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper was admitted on May 28 after an unfortunate accident in El Rocío, Huelva. The goalkeeper fell from a horse that kicked him afterward, causing head trauma. His evolution continues to be slow, and news from the hospital come in drops. And more that will from the next few weeks.
The new statement issued by the hospital this morning reiterates the state in which the player has been since last Friday, when he had to be sedated again after a temporary withdrawal. Sergio Rico “continues under the effects of sedation, with close surveillance and monitoring, being cared for by the Intensive Medicine team in consensus with other specialists in a multidisciplinary way,” according to the last message.
Likewise, the decision has been made not to issue new statements until there are significant changes in the state of the Sevillian. This novelty began to sound at the beginning of the week, but now it has been officially confirmed at the express request of the family. Until now, the only news in the state of Sergio Rico was shared by Alba Silva, the soccer player’s wife, who interacted with journalists every day after leaving the hospital.
Precisely during the day yesterday, the journalist gave one last update despite being in a very low state of mind. “Everything is still a bit the same. I don’t have much news,” she confirmed before the Europa Press microphones. It should be remembered that last Sunday was the couple’s first wedding anniversary, and that Alba Silva left a heartfelt tribute to her husband and all her possible wishes for her to recover.
Sergio Rico’s accident generated several unknowns around the events, but with the passing of the days they have been solved until a clear reconstruction of what happened has been obtained. The goalkeeper traveled to Huelva from Strasbourg, where he had just won Ligue 1 with PSG, to take part in the El Rocío pilgrimage. While he was going to the Pontifical Mass on horseback, a garbage truck scared the colt, which violently threw the porter to the ground on the rebound. Altered and confused, the steed ended up kicking him in the neck.
Within the range of reactions, the most heartfelt were those of the main clubs with which the goalkeeper has played: Sevilla and Paris Saint-Germain. Those from Nervión dedicated their seventh Europa League to him by jumping onto the pitch of the Púskas Arena in Budapest with a shirt in his honor. The Parisians, for their part, turned the end of the season against Clermont into a heartfelt tribute: shirts with his name on the back, a spectacular tifo, a headed goal from Sergio Ramos and a shirt in the air from Kylian Mbappé.
