Cagliari’s Yael Trepy Leaves Hospital After Pool Accident

For Cagliari, the fear has finally lifted. For Yael Trepy, life itself has been handed back.

The young French striker has been discharged from the "Santissima Annunziata" University Hospital in Sassari, two weeks after a swimming pool accident that almost killed him and threatened to end his career before it had truly started.

On 16 August, during a holiday at a villa in the Baja Sardinia area near the Costa Smeralda, Trepy nearly drowned in the pool. What followed was a race against time. Emergency services intervened with speed and precision, airlifting him to Sassari. Without that chain of responses, doctors are in no doubt: the outcome could have been catastrophic.

He arrived at hospital and went straight into intensive care. Medics placed him in a medically induced coma for 48 hours, stabilising his condition and buying time. When he finally woke, the first battle had been won.

From there, the recovery became more methodical. Trepy was transferred to the pulmonology ward, where specialists monitored his lungs and overall condition. The key relief for everyone around him: tests confirmed he had suffered no major physical damage.

“Not a miracle, but a system that works”

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.

He explained that the tests carried out over his stay had shown steady improvement, allowing doctors to sign off on his discharge calmly and confidently. Talk of a miracle has circled in recent days, but Pirina chose different words: this, he said, was the result of a system proving its effectiveness, from the emergency response to the intensive care unit and beyond.

A smile, a farewell, and the road ahead

When Trepy finally stepped out of the hospital, he did so with a broad smile, his mother at his side. He took the time to say goodbye to the medical staff who had watched over him, as well as the hospital’s general director and medical director. The fear and uncertainty of mid-August had given way to something far lighter.

The story is not finished, though. It simply moves to a new chapter.

Trepy will now head to Arco, in the province of Trento, where a structured rehabilitation programme awaits. There, specialists will guide his physical recovery, building him back step by step. Further detailed tests will follow, designed to answer the question everyone in Cagliari is quietly asking: can he return to competition and be cleared to play again?

For now, the result that matters most is already on the board. Yael Trepy is alive, out of danger, and walking into the next phase of his life under his own power. The rest of his story will be written in the months to come.