The brutal accident of a Messi teammate at PSG: “He is in serious condition,” the club said

After a day of joy, sadness deeply invades the paris saint germain From Lionel Messi. Is that this Sunday, less than 24 hours after the entire team gathered to celebrate the consecration as champion of the French championship, the accident straddling the Spanish goalkeeper Sergio Rico It left him hospitalized “in serious condition” after suffering a fall in Huelva, his hometown in the Andalusia region.

“Sergio has fallen from his horse. He is in serious condition”, a PSG spokesman explained to the French international agency AFP. On Saturday, Rico was on the bench in the Parisian side’s triumph over Racing de Strasbourg, with a goal from Messi ensuring a new star.

The Spanish newspaper BrandMeanwhile, he reported that the man usually capped for the Spain national team is in a situation “stable”.

Sergio Rico, after the consecration, moved to El Rocío, where his pilgrimage is being celebrated these days, and it was Sunday morning when he suffered the mishap that forced him to be quickly transferred to the hospital Virgin of Rocio.

His hospitalization was due to a “craniocerebral trauma” and he arrived “by helicopter” at the treatment center, where he was admitted in “respiratory assistance”, Andalusian public television reported. south channel.

The Spanish agency EFE extension reported for his part that, according to the footballer’s environment, Rico did not fall off his horse, but was kicked by one of the animals participating in the pilgrimage.

Rico joined PSG in 2019 from Sevilla, where he shared the squad with several Argentines, and has been playing ever since 29 games with the Parisian team, even if he almost always had a substitute role, before the Costa Rican Keylor Navas and since last season of the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma.

For this he went on loan to Mallorca in his home country in the second half of last season.