De Bruyne will miss almost four months with a hamstring injury.
According to the EFE agency
Thibault Courtois, Éder Militao, Kevin De Bruyne or Jurien Timber are just some of the names of famous football players who have been seriously injured this summer, in pre-season or early on in the course. The list grows drop by drop every day, and what seemed like an exception becomes a plague.
Pep Guardiola, Manchester City manager, was one of the first to raise his voice in a situation that is becoming commonplace. Team pre-seasons, rather than training periods, have become promotional tours. The Spanish coach has strongly condemned the current state of football, which, in his opinion, does not care about the main characters: the players.
“De Bruyne is a bitch, he is a very important player for us. In my first pre-season, I had 25 days to prepare for the first match against Skonto Riga. Now give 4 days. And in the end, look how many crusaders… They make you go to Asia, the USA, very strong matches, derbies, big matches, people fall,” he said.
“And it continues to fall and will continue to fall. Because the show must go on. And if Courtois is not there, there will be another one, and if Militao is not there, then another, or Kevin, well, there will be another one. Because you finish the Champions and they spend two weeks with the national teams and then next year the US Club World Cup with 37 teams. It’s too much adaptation, shooting, very little training and energy in matches. It’s a losing battle until the players stand up and say, “We’re not playing,” Guardiola added.
Even before De Bruyne, who will be out for almost four months with a hamstring injury, was injured, Guardiola was already regretting the schedule his team had to face in August: the Community Cup, the European Super Cup and the first legs of the European Championship. Premier League. Many took Guardiola’s words as another of his complaints. However, he was right.
Real Madrid, one of the most
hurt by the summer
But Guardiola is not the first to suffer the rigors of pre-season in the form of injuries. Undoubtedly, Real Madrid suffered the most, having lost Thibaut Courtois and Eder Militao in just a few days. The first was injured during training before the start of the league, and the second was unable to complete the debut of the white team against Athletic in San Mames.
Both tore their anterior cruciate ligaments in the knee and were out of action for many months. And, as Guardiola warned, “the show must go on.” Real Madrid have signed Kepa Arrizabalaga instead of Courtois and they haven’t signed anyone to strengthen the center of defense at the moment.
But they are not the only ones who suffered in the team of Carlo Ancelotti. In the pre-season, one of his new players, Arda Güler, a Turk, also fell, who injured the inner meniscus of his right knee. In a friendly match, he did not even have time to put on a T-shirt, and for this he will have to wait a bit.
De Bruyne, Courtois, Militao and Guler are no exception. On the same Wednesday, Arsenal announced that Jurrien Timber had been seriously injured following a torn anterior cross of his right knee sustained during the Gunners’ debut against Nottingham Forest. The Dutch defender joined Arsenal from Ajax in a €40m exchange and will miss more than half of the season in order to lose an important investment from the London club.
Silva, Simeone, Alex Millan, Marie… list of victims in Spain
More players fell in Spain as well. Giuliano Simeone will miss the entire season at Alaves with a broken fibula and sprained ankle. Unlike the others, it was a very difficult call from Burgos player José Matos, who ended the Atlético loan player’s season in a friendly match.
David Silva did not even have time to say goodbye to football on the field in his last season. The Real Sociedad player was forced to retire early due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. The 37-year-old “wizard of Arguineguin” was unable to recover after eight months and decided to hang up his boots after suffering an injury in July while training.
In July, Oviedo striker Alex Millan also kissed the canvas, also with a torn ACL in his right knee. At Betis, William Carvalho will miss until mid-September due to a muscle injury in the middle third of the soleus muscle of his right leg; In Valencia, Alberto Mari has undergone surgery due to a rectus femoris injury to his right quadriceps and will be out for four months.
Also absent from the Premier League are Kevin De Bruyne and Jurrier Timber, Emiliano Buendia (Aston Villa, knee ligament injury) and Chelsea players Christopher Nkunku and Wesley Fofana (both with various knee injuries). All three were injured in the summer.
And at the Women’s World Cup, which takes place in Australia and New Zealand, Argentine Florencia Bonsegundo suffered a torn cruciate ligament in her left knee. The Albiceleste midfielder was one of the latest to suffer from a summer full of incidents.
There’s still half of August left. There will be a break in the leagues for matches with national teams. If the trend continues, the list will increase by the end of summer. It seems inevitable. Guardiola raised his voice and will certainly not be the first. And players will probably be the next to make their claims, because in the end they will get tired of the summer calendar, which is harmful to their health.
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