Heart problems are increasingly affecting professional soccer players due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A goal by striker Jim Allevinah with two minutes to go allowed the Gabon team to rescue a valuable draw (1-1) against Ghana, in a match in which, as happened on the first day of the Africa Cup, could not count on its greatest star, striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
If the Arsenal player was unable to play the clash that the Gabonese team faced with Comoros last Monday after testing positive for coronavirus, he now missed the appointment with Ghana as a result of “heart injuries” caused by covid-19.
A circumstance that, as reported by the Gabonese Federation, led the medical commission of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to prevent Aubameyang from participating to “avoid risks”. The same situation that also prevented French Nice midfielder Mario Lemina and striker Axel Meyé from playing.
The casualties seemed to condemn the Gabonese team, especially after eighteen minutes into the game behind on the scoreboard (0-1) after striker André Ayew’s goal for the Ghana team. But when everything seemed lost for the “panthers”, the figure of Allevinah burst in, establishing the final 1-1 at 88 minutes that allows Gabon to reach the last day of group C, in which it will face Morocco, depending of herself to get through to the round of 16.
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