Bafana Bafana head coach Carlos Parreira was released from hospital on Saturday after the internationally respected official was admitted to a Johannesburg clinic on Thursday — barely hours after announcing a second-string South African squad to play Cosafa Cup games in Swaziland.
”I am feeling much better now,” said Parreira, who was taken to hospital after complaining of a fever and an inflamed rib cage.
”At the beginning of the month,” revealed a South African Football Association (Safa) statement that eased the earlier gnawing scare, ”the Bafana coach fractured a right rib after suffering a fall on a visit to Brazil.
”He continued with treatment after returning to South Africa on May 4,” continued the Safa statement. ”But he was taken to hospital after complaining of a fever and excruciating pain around the rib cage.”
Parreira has been advised to rest for several days and will not travel to Swaziland with the Bafana squad on Tuesday, but he is hopeful of joining up with the party prior to the first of two games against Malawi on Saturday.
The celebrated former Brazil World Cup coach has not had the best of luck with his health recently — going to Brazil in the first place to undergo a knee operation that he described as ”totally satisfactory.” — Sapa