He Fluminense announced in the last few hours that he removed the Brazilian playmaker from the team Paulo Henrique ‘Goose’former Sevilla player, after detecting a “small myocarditis” in the preseason medical examinations. Ganso, 35, will stay away from the physical activities of the squad and “will be examined again in four weeks,” according to the Rio de Janeiro club in a note published on its social networks.
The club believes that “most likely” the inflammation is a consequence of a “strong flu” that the player had in November of last year, as it is the first time that myocarditis has been detected since he arrived at the ‘Flu’ , six years ago.
If the problem is not detected again in the exams in a month’s time, Ganso “will be able to return to training normally,” the Rio entity reported. Fluminense stressed that the former Brazilian international has no symptoms and that he will only be away from the team “as part of the treatment”, which will be carried out by the club’s Medical Department.
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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 made the leap to Europe. In the Old Continent he defended the colors of Sevilla and French club Amiens, But he did not finish adapting and returned to Brazil in 2019 to sign with Fluminense. In the Rio squad he regained his level again, being a key piece in achieving the Copa Libertadores title in 2023, the first in the history of the Tricolor Carioca.
