Following the last international break, Brighton & Hove Albion’s Yasin Ayari picked up a worrying illness which left the player and those around him both confused and concerned.
The 21-year-old had been away with Sweden, playing against Azerbaijan and Estonia in the UEFA Nations League. Following that international break he went back to club team Brighton, played against Ipswich Town, and then went down with illness.
Aftonbladet quote the youngster as saying: “I came back and played 90 minutes. Then I got sick, very sick. It was a scary disease. I don’t know what happened. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t close my mouth and lost four kilos.”
The Brighton player explained he was suffering from a fever and it felt like ‘everything possible’ which could be wrong with him was for a while.
Ayari either doesn’t know or didn’t want to confirm the exact nature of what the issue was, and is quoted by the Swedish newspaper as saying: “I think it was some corona thing or something, I don’t know. But it was some sick thing. Before the match against Chelsea I still couldn’t eat. So I just ate soup and drank stuff before the game. There was a bit of a lack of energy, but now I’m back and it feels good.”
It’s now a case of the player working to get himself back into peak fitness so that he’s ready for the rest of the campaign.
Rather than it being a case of using the international break to rest, Ayari is continuing at full speed, and will hope to feature again for Sweden in the current international break.
The country face Slovakia on Friday and Estonia on Monday.
