Leicester Metropolis supervisor Brendan Rodgers says he “had no energy” after contracting the coronavirus in March.
Rodgers is the 2d Premier League supervisor to substantiate he has had Covid-19, with Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta additionally making an try out obvious in March.
The 47-yr-ragged says he suffered with “breathlessness” sooner than entirely recovering from the virus.
“I would possibly well maybe maybe every now and then stroll and it rang a bell in my memory of strolling up Mount Kilimanjaro,” he told BBC Radio Leicester.
“We had a week off after we had been supposed to play Watford [14 March] after which the week after that, I began to fight.
“For three weeks I had no scent or model. I had no energy, and a week after, my most well-known other used to be the identical. We had been examined and both of us had been detected with the virus.”
Rodgers climbed Kilimanjaro in aid of charity in 2011, weeks after profitable the Championship play-off final with Swansea and guiding the membership to the Premier League for the fundamental time.
He used to be segment of a 17-stable team representing the Football League.
“It rang a bell in my memory of after I climbed Kilimanjaro. The upper you went the extra you suffered with acclimatisation and the extra troublesome it used to be to breathe,” he added.
“I take into account making an try to bustle for the fundamental time [after becoming ill] and it used to be onerous to scurry 10 yards. I had no precise inch for meals and it used to be a irregular sensation of eating meals without ever tasting and smelling what it used to be.”