Coach Ricardo Gomes leaves hospital after stroke

SAO PAULO (AP)—Former Brazil defender Ricardo Gomes has been released from the hospital three weeks after sustaining a stroke during a Brazilian league match.

Doctors say the 46-year-old Gomes will continue physiotherapy treatment at home and could fully recover to coach Vasco da Gama again in the future.

Gomes collapsed in the second half of Vasco’s match against rival Flamengo in the Brazilian league on Aug. 28. He was rushed to the hospital and had to undergo emergency surgery that same day.

Gomes, who had already sustained a minor stroke after a match last year, previously coached Sao Paulo and French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and AC Monaco.

He played for the Brazilian national team in the late 1980s and early 1990s.