Toni Dovale, born in 1990, has played in the Spanish national championship for Celta Vigo, Leganes... In addition, he also has a pharmaceutical degree from San Jorge University in Zaragoza.
On Christmas and New Year's Day, the player with the advantage of running on the wing visited his family in Spain. At this time, he is a member of the team playing in the Thai La - Royal Thai Navy FC 2nd Division.
The strong COVID-19 outbreak in Europe has ruined Dovale's plan to return to Thailand. At this time, he decided to temporarily put football aside to take advantage of the knowledge and skills he had learned to help people.
Dovale has been serving at his family pharmacy in Coruna for the past few weeks, contributing to fighting the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There are a lot of things missing here and we have to struggle to get simple things like gloves, thermals, hand sanitizer or paracetamol, Dovale told TRT World.
This special player's day starts at 7am. He started to do light exercise at home with simple tools like a bottle of water or anything else. After that, Dovale went down the stairs to the family pharmacy. Here, he spends most of his time researching drugs and methods to fight the COVID-19 epidemic.
We all know its a pandemic and everything is in a complex situation. But we also know that our behavior in complex situations shows who we are. And for me, I need to put my concerns aside and help people in any way I can, Dovale told AFP.
