Developing Story: Kylian Mbappé Becomes The First High Profile Footballer To Be Tested For COVID19

The coronavirus continues to spread throughout Europe and this Tuesday the first case of a footballer playing in the Champions League that has contracted it could be confirmed. According to French media reports, Kylian Mbappé was isolated and is currently analyzing whether CoVID 19 is present in his body.






The Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward has presented symptoms that have prevented him from training with the rest of his teammates on Monday and Tuesday, so it was decided to test him today. The result must be known today afternoon or Wednesday morning. The L’Equipe site points out that “the first elements point in the direction of a negative test and would confirm the first diagnosis, namely, angina of the gun”.

This would prevent the footballer from being present in the duel for the round of 16 of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund, scheduled for this Wednesday in the Parc des Princes to be played without an audience. France is the fifth country on the list with the most cases of coronavirus, 1,784 infected and 33 dead have been detected there. Ahead are South Korea, Iran, Italy and China.




This Tuesday it was announced that Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 will play their games behind closed doors until April 15, a similar measure to that taken by Spain, although the measure in the Iberian nation runs only for the next two days. Germany and Portugal have also announced similar rules. The PSG did not issue any kind of statement about it, despite the fact that Mbappé is one of its top figures in his team, along with Neymar, and the great star of the French national team.

At 21, he has already won a World Cup (Russia 2018) and was chosen as the best in his country in 2018 and 2019, in addition to having been nominated for the Ballon d'Or on two occasions. On March 7, the match between the Parisian squad and Strasbourg was the only one in Ligue 1 that was suspended due to the coronavirus, so the last match that the top scorer of the contest disputed was against Dijon on February 29.




That afternoon, he scored two goals in his team's 4-0 win. PSG trained normally today and even the club published a video showing how Leandro Paredes practiced, who was called up today by Lionel Scaloni to the Argentine team for duels against Ecuador and Bolivia for the first double-elimination date.