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Achilles Polonara updates after the'latest operation

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Successful heart surgery for Achille Polonara. “Surgery went well! Thanks for the many messages and for the usual warmth” wrote the same basketball player from Marche in a story posted on his Instagram account. The operation, necessary for competitive activity, had been announced by the Azzurro himself during the presentation of his book “My second half: a basketball story, a life story” at the Inalpi Arena in Turin’Inalpi.

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“I will have another minor heart surgery that will give me competitive eligibility, so I hope then to be able to get back on the court soon and that is very heartening to me – Polonara had said. “My goal until this summer was just to get healthy again after my diagnosis. When I signed with Sassari, my goal was no longer just to get healthy, but also to get back on the court soon, because there was a desire to repay the trust that had been given to me by President Sardara and the whole company”.

The long ordeal for the Dinamo Sassari player had begun in 2025 when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The Ancona winger had to go through a treatment that was not easy, culminating in a bone marrow transplant performed in September. Subsequent complications, including a blood clot that put him in a coma, made recovery even more complex.

“I thought: enough, now I am going to throw myself out of the window of the’hospital and end it – he admitted in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera – Luckily Erika was there: you have to hold on for the family, for the children. But I felt my back was against the wall with ten behemoths holding you down. I wanted to disappear. But then I thought: it’s not fair for my children to grow up without a father, or to think that Dad didn’t at least try”.

Born Nov. 23, 1991, Achille Polonara has worn the undershirts of Stamura Ancona, Teramo, Varese, Reggio Emilia, Sassari, Baskonia, Fenerbahce, Efes, Zalgiris and Virtus Bologna in his career before re-signing with Dinamo. He also boasts 94 appearances with the national team, for which he was symbolically named captain during last November’s World Cup qualifiers.

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