Turkey great Rustu Recber has been hospitalised after testing positive for coronavirus, his wife Isil has revealed.
Goalkeeper Rustu spent much of his club career at Fenerbahce, including a loan stint with the Turkish Super Lig giants during a three-year stay at Barcelona.
A star of the 2002 World Cup, Rustu played just seven times for Barca all within the 2003-04 season but retired aged 39 in 2012 with 120 international caps to his name.
The 46-year-old s wife Isil posted on her Instagram page on Saturday to inform fans of her husband s diagnosis.
I would like to give you more positive news while sharing the truth in the most transparent way, but I m sorry to say that my husband Rustu is hospitalised with the diagnosis of COVID-19, she wrote.
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