{"id":226126,"date":"2025-06-30T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226126\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:07:11","slug":"spains-bonmati-discharged-from-hospital-ahead-of-uefa-womens-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226126\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Bonmati Discharged From Hospital Ahead Of UEFA Women\u2019s Euro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751270831_233_960x0.jpg\" alt=\"Media Day Spanish Women's Team - Uefa Women's Euro 2025\" data-height=\"1655\" data-width=\"2482\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\" role=\"button\">LAS ROZAS, SPAIN &#8211; JUNE 24: Aitana Bonmati of Spain attends during the Media day of the Spanish &#8230; More women&#8217;s team ahead UEFA Women&#8217;s Euro 2025 at Ciudad del Futbol on June 24, 2025, in Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Dennis Agyeman\/Europa Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s two-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2025\/05\/26\/barcelonas-aitana-bonmati-named-champions-league-player-of-the-season\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2025\/05\/26\/barcelonas-aitana-bonmati-named-champions-league-player-of-the-season\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Aitana Bonmati\" rel=\"noopener\">Aitana Bonmati<\/a> has been discharged from hospital after undergoing treatment for viral meningitis and is expected to rejoin the squad in \u201cthe coming days\u201d, the federation has <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEFutbolFem\/status\/1939272421150007297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/x.com\/SEFutbolFem\/status\/1939272421150007297\" aria-label=\"announced\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bonmati\u2019s participation at the upcoming Women\u2019s Euro had been under doubt after the midfielder did not train on Thursday and was taken to a hospital in Madrid on Friday after being diagnosed with viral meningitis, an infection that causes inflammation near the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to everyone for the messages I\u2019ve received and to those who have helped me these past few days. Fortunately, everything is going well. I hope to return soon,\u201d Bonmati said on <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/aitanabonmati\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/aitanabonmati\/?hl=en\" aria-label=\"Instagram\">Instagram <\/a>on Sunday, sharing a photo of herself in a hospital bed with a thumbs-up.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2024\/12\/18\/aitana-bonmati-named-the-best-fifa-womens-player-for-second-year-in-a-row\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2024\/12\/18\/aitana-bonmati-named-the-best-fifa-womens-player-for-second-year-in-a-row\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"27-year-old\" rel=\"noopener\">27-year-old<\/a> missed Spain\u2019s final warm-up game ahead of the Euro \u2013 a friendly game with Japan on Friday in Leganes which the world champions won 3-1. The Spain squad headed to Switzerland on Sunday afternoon, with the Euro due to begin there from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>La Roja are scheduled to open their campaign against Portugal on Thursday, with Belgium and Italy their other opponents in Group B.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2024\/04\/23\/aitana-bonmati-and-spain-take-home-2024-laureus-world-sports-awards\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/manasipathak-1\/2024\/04\/23\/aitana-bonmati-and-spain-take-home-2024-laureus-world-sports-awards\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Bonmati\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonmati<\/a>, winner of the Ballon d\u2019Or in 2023 and 2024, is a key player of the Spain squad with 30 goals in 78 appearances. She played an important role in their 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup-winning campaign and the UEFA Nations League last year.<\/p>\n<p>Spain are playing at the Euro for only the fifth time, having enjoyed their best performance in 1997 when they reached the semi-finals. They reached the quarter-finals in their other three editions.<\/p>\n<p>Spain are one of the pre-tournament favorites, alongside defending champions England and record eight-time winners Germany.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS ROZAS, SPAIN &#8211; JUNE 24: Aitana Bonmati of Spain attends during the Media day of the Spanish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[89160,87016,2000,47304,299,89162,104,32416,89163,89165,89161,85980,89164],"class_list":{"0":"post-226126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-2025-euro","9":"tag-aitana-bonmati","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-euro","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-euros-2025","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-uefa-womens-euro-2025","16":"tag-weuro","17":"tag-when-does-womens-euro-2025-start","18":"tag-womens-euro","19":"tag-womens-euro-2025","20":"tag-womens-euro-2025-odds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771292993202531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}