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Shot Cabañas recovers slowly and leaves hospital
Wednesday 03 March
Salvador Cabañas has left the hospital on Tuesday, five weeks after he was shot in the head in a bar in Mexico City. The Paraguayan striker moved to a rehabilitation centre in a suburb of the Mexican capital.
Cabañas still has a bullet lodged in his brain. The 29-year old is recovering slowly. He can walk a few steps, he can speak, although very limitedly, but he remains fragile. ‘Doctor Ernesto Martínez determined that Cabañas is in condition to leave the hospital to begin the next steps of his recuperation’, his club, Club América, announced on its website.
It remains a big question if Cabañas will ever play football again. Doctor Martínez, who is treating him, says it is too early to predict how fully he will recover. Martinez and other doctors have told that having a bullet in his brain would not necessarily impede Cabañas from returning to the game.
The striker was Paraguay’s top goal scorer during the country’s successful qualification campaign for the World Cup in South Africa. In Group F Paraguay will face Italy, Slovakia and New Zealand.
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