Immediately after undergoing the covidid during the ongoing African Championship at the Arsenal striker, doctors discovered unspecified heart problems. For precautionary reasons, therefore, he did not enter the next match. And three days later, the national team management preferred to send him back to the club: “So that he can undergo a more thorough examination.”
The same happened to his national teammate Mario Lemina, a midfielder of Nice, after the illness.
Or is there something else entirely behind it all?
Front Gabonese daily L’Union he informed that the pair of footballers had to leave the team due to another disciplinary offense. On Sunday evening, they were to leave the team hotel and return drunk around five o’clock in the morning. It is said that there were also skirmishes with security and some teammates …
Although both rejected the described chaos through their own social networks. Lemina even announced the end of the national team due to “lies that directly affect his family”. After a while, however, he deleted the post.
That is why the smell of doubt remains. And it’s not an easy situation for either of them.
“We have problems that are difficult to solve. “Health is the most important thing,” he said Aubameyang in his tweet of the aforementioned heart finding. “And I refuse to fuel speculation that only aims to hurt,” he said against the domestic media.
We have problems that are already complicated to solve and then there are rumours, in short, we have health to take care of first and foremost I won’t go back on these false rumors and I sincerely hope that our team will go as far as possible ❤️
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But what’s next?
While Gabon, for example, and former Spartan midfielder Guélor Kanga continue the tournament after advancing from the group, the players have dug a ditch despite health problems, which they may no longer be able to cover.
After all, it was Aubameyang and Lemina who went to a luxury nightclub in Dubai during the preparatory camp in the United Arab Emirates and just four days before the start of the African tournament, which captured a video that escaped on social networks. Both were then tested positive for covid.
Along with them, other Gabonese footballers became infected, and striker Axel Meye was to have a finding at heart after the end of isolation. However, he stayed with the team, and on Tuesday he even intervened in the match against Morocco for the last minutes.
This is one of the reasons why it is now being discussed so intensively whether there were really only health complications behind the departure of the two Gabonese stars. Or to what extent he was pushed by the players’ clubs after unclear information about heart problems, which, according to national team coach Patrice Neveu, was not serious.
Specifically for Aubameyang, the whole situation is unfortunate also because he brought a lot of problems to the African championship from his home Arsenal.
Before Christmas, coach Mikel Arteta stripped him of his captain’s belt “after another disciplinary offense” and the 32-year-old shooter has only trained individually since then.
At a time when the club’s management had blocked travel outside the UK due to the deteriorating epidemic situation, Aubameyang was granted an exemption to travel to France. Within twenty-four hours, he was to pick up his sick mother and take her home to London. However, he returned a day later, moreover, due to ambiguities with the tests, he did not meet all the requirements associated with the covid-19, and Artet definitely ran out of patience.
“We expect all our players, and especially the captain, to behave and work in accordance with the rules and standards that we have all set and agreed together at the club,” Arsenal announced officially.
Arteta has already punished Aubameyang in the past, for example because of his repeated late arrivals. When he failed to arrive in time for last year’s derby against Tottenham, he withdrew the elite striker from the starting line at the last minute.
Former Dortmund scorer and second most expensive player in club history is still the highest paid football player in the team. Thanks to a warm relationship with the then new coach Arteta, the Gabonese striker signed a new three-year contract last September.
When he shot his victory in the English Cup two months earlier, he had all his teammates and members of the implementation team make a small replica of the trophy, which Arteta allegedly exhibited in his office. A year and a half later, however, he explained to Aubameyang without mercy: We are no longer counting on you.
That’s why the Gabonese striker, unlike other African players from the English league, was allowed to travel to the national team before the continental championship earlier. But instead of the expected restart, he fell into even deeper problems. Personal and medical.
It’s hard to say what kind of case this resolution will get.
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