Yael Trepy Leaves Hospital After Near-Fatal Accident
For Cagliari, the fear has finally lifted. For Yael Trepy, life has quite literally restarted.
The young French striker has been discharged from the "Santissima Annunziata" University Hospital in Sassari, closing the most traumatic chapter of a career that had barely begun. Two weeks ago he was fighting for his life. Now he walks out of hospital under his own power, smiling, with his mother by his side.
From holiday to horror
The date is burned in memory: 16 August. What should have been a quiet holiday in a villa in Baja Sardinia, near the Costa Smeralda, turned into a nightmare.
Trepy almost drowned in a swimming pool. The situation was so critical that emergency teams had to airlift him to hospital. Without that rapid response, doctors are in no doubt: the outcome would have been catastrophic.
He arrived in Sassari and went straight into intensive care. Medics placed him in a medically induced coma for 48 hours, buying time, protecting his body, waiting to see how he would respond. For two days, Cagliari, his family and the wider football community could only wait.
Then came the first turning point. Trepy woke up.
System over “miracle”
From there, the climb back began. He was transferred from intensive care to the pulmonology ward, where the focus shifted to his lungs, his breathing, his long-term health. Bit by bit, the news improved.
Professor Pietro Pirina, director of the department of clinical and interventional pulmonology at Sassari University Hospital, summed up the journey in a statement to "Sky Sport".
“The patient is leaving hospital in a generally good clinical condition, after a course of treatment that showed a gradual and marked recovery,” he said.
The message was clear: this was not a lucky escape built on hope alone. It was the product of coordination, speed and expertise.
“The tests carried out during his stay in hospital showed an improvement in his condition, which allowed us to plan his discharge from hospital with peace of mind. If some have spoken in recent days of a miracle, we prefer to speak of the work of a system that has proven its effectiveness,” Pirina added.
No hyperbole, no mythology. Just a chain that held when it mattered most.
A smile, a farewell, and the road ahead
When Trepy finally left the hospital, the scene was striking in its simplicity. No grand ceremony, no big speeches. Just a young footballer with a broad smile, his mother alongside him, saying goodbye to the doctors, nurses, the general director and the medical director who had watched over him.
The hardest phase is behind him. The next one begins immediately.
Trepy will now travel to Arco, in the province of Trento, to start a structured rehabilitation programme. There, specialists will work on his recovery step by step, away from the spotlight, with the same patience that has defined the past two weeks.
Only after further detailed tests will doctors decide whether he can return to competition and regain full fitness clearance. That verdict lies in the future.
For now, the story is simpler, and far more important: Yael Trepy is alive, out of hospital, and walking into the rest of his life. Whether that path leads back to the pitch will be the next question in a career that has already survived its first great test.
