When Serbia announced on Wednesday that Borisa Simanic was forfeited for the rest of the competition, we had no idea that his state of health would deteriorate to the point of having a kidney removed! Especially since initially, the Serbian Federation had declared, on Thursday, that ” the player felt well and that all kidney function had been preserved“.
Unfortunately, on Sunday evening, this same Federation confirmed the information from the Telegraf : his substitute interior suffered the removal of a kidney. It is extremely rare in sport, but we remember that footballer Fabien Lemoine had also lost a kidney after a shock during a match.
For Simanic, it’s a nudge received against South Sudan. At the very end of the match when the match was folded. Taken to a hospital in Manila, the player had been operated on overnight, but he had already lost a lot of blood, and according to his coach Svetislav Pesic, it was very difficult to find blood.
Unfortunately, his state of health therefore worsened, and on Sunday the doctors removed the affected kidney.
