Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed he and his wife both battled coronavirus, stating the illness left him barely able to walk.
Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester on Friday, the former Celtic and Liverpool boss, 47, said that he began to feel unwell just after the 2019-20 Premier League season was halted due to the pandemic in March.
Wife Charlotte then developed the same symptoms, with Rodgers seeking a test after complaining of weakness and a loss of appetite, taste and smell as well as a headache "really isolated on one side".
Recounting his experiences with coronavirus that lasted around three weeks, Rodgers compared the breathlessness brought about by the disease to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, which he did in 2011 as part of a Football League team following Swansea City's promotion to the Premier League.
"I had no strength, I really struggled and a week after that my wife, she was the same as well," he said.
"So we end up, we got tested and both of us were detected with the virus.
"So having explained this a little bit and the breathlessness of it, you could hardly walk, you know, it reminded me of partly when I climbed Kilimanjaro, when the higher you go you suffer with the acclimatisation and everything and you're very breathless and that's what it felt like.
"You know, walking like 10 yards felt very, very different.
"And then going to do a run for one of the first times, and I couldn't. I hardly could go 10 yards."
Rodgers is the second Premier League manager to have contracted coronavirus, with Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta testing positive on March 12 - a key factor in the subsequent suspension of the top-flight campaign - before making a full recovery.
