Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
The side Claudio Ibraim Vaz Leal, “Branco”, champion with the Brazilian team in 1994 World Cup USA, was transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU), where he is intubated after a worsening of the clinical picture due to COVID-19.
The former football player, from 56 years, is admitted to CopaStar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday with a painting “grave“Lung infection due to the new coronavirus, according to the latest medical report released on Friday.
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On Thursday he suffered a deterioration in health and was transferred to an intensive care unit, where he is “sedated” and “mechanically ventilated”.
In the last 24 hours, it has evolved in a “stable way”, although there are still no forecasts as to when it will be able to breathe “by its own means”, the medical team said in the note.
According to the portal “GloboEsporte”, Branco is one of the six infected who recently traveled with the Brazilian team U18 in the city of Recife, in the northeast of the country, for a series of training sessions and friendly matches.
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Brazil is currently going through the worst phase of the pandemic, due in part to the circulation of several infectious variants of the coronavirus, and so far has accumulated nearly 11.8 million cases and nearly 290,000 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.
Branco, the current coordinator of the lower categories of the Brazilian team, was one of the key pieces of the team that was proclaimed champion at the 1994 World Cup in the United States, under coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and led by striker Romario de Souza.
Four years earlier, at the World Cup in Italy, the left-back played at a controversial time in the round of 16 against Argentina, which went down in history as the episode “Agua Bendita”.
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The equalizer was decided in favor of the whites thanks to a goal by Claudio Cannigia, but it was not without controversy.
Branco denounced at the time that he felt a series of dizziness after drinking from one of the water cans offered by the Argentine physiotherapist Miguel di Lorenzo and suggested that he could have put some substance in the bottle.
The star of the Albiceleste team, the late Diego Armando Maradona, even joked about it, although the coach Carlos Salvador Bilardo categorically denied this. EFE