Bournemouth’s Ivorian midfielder Hamed Traoré was hospitalized after contracted malaria and will miss the African Cup of Nations (CAN), his coach said at the English Premier League club on Friday. “Now he is out of the hospital and he is here with us, but from a sporting point of view, he will be absent for a while,” explained Andoni Iraola, the technician of the “Cherries”, twelfth in the Premier League.
Traoré, suffering, was not selected by French coach Jean-Louis Gasset in his list for the CAN organized in Ivory Coast from January 13 to February 11. The 23-year-old player trained in Italy is resting and still has to undergo numerous medical examinations: “(The doctors) have to check that everything is working well, that his body is reacting correctly. But he will be away for several months,” said Iraola.
The Spanish coach did not reveal how Traoré had caught malaria but, according to several media, he contracted this disease – potentially fatal and transmitted to humans by a mosquito, the Anopheles mosquito – last November. The attacking midfielder has not played with his selection since the two World Cup qualifying matches last November against Seychelles (9-0) and Gambia (2-0).