Edinson Cavani continues not to play football: a more serious injury than diagnosed and a plan to get to points intact

The era of Diego Martinez In Mouth This Tuesday marks its first week and for now everything revolves around Valentín Barco’s imminent departure for Brighton in England. It is one of the novels of a summer transfer market that is proceeding slowly, with goalkeepers as the main protagonists, and which has not yet seen any inclusion in the squad of the Ribera club. However, beyond the negotiations, The new coach is waiting for a reinforcement already present in the squad. It’s about the Uruguayan Edinson Cavaniwho will turn 37 on February 14th and was one of the big absentees in the first Xeneize football training sessions.

What’s wrong with Cavani? The expert Uruguayan scorer follows a special routine to achieve the ideal set-up. It is a continuity of the work he carried out during the holidays in his native Salto, where he worked with a program specially designed by Boca’s physical trainers. The idea was that the former Napoli and PSG player would arrive ready for pre-season, but that wasn’t the case.

The reason is simple: the injury suffered against Newell’sin the penultimate match of the regular phase of the last Professional League Cup, It was much more serious than anyone knew. It’s been talked about discomfort in the rectus femoris of the left leg. But it seemed to be more than just a fibrillar tear.

The ailments ruled him out of the Argentina Cup semi-final defeat against Students and the last match of the local tournament against Godoy Cruzin Mendoza, but they forced him to take that too detailed work plan to Uruguay. So much so that the images he spread from his place in the world through his social networks were all exercises.

Cavani’s penalty and commitment did not arrivesince January 2nd arrived, 50 days after the injury, without feeling full. And if it is true that he moved at the same time as his colleagues during physical work sessions, He Bullfighter He’s not yet 100 percent ready to practice football.

Hence his absence in the first team which Martínez ended this weekend, when the ball finally appeared as a vital element of the preseason.

Goal from Cavani

The premise of the technical staff of Gigolo is that Cavani has a ten point lead at the start of the competition. They don’t want to rush him because he also came from a semester in which he hadn’t done the traditional pre-season in the midst of his somewhat messy exit from the Valenciain the middle of last year.

Martínez expects a lot from Cavani, who in the second half of 2023 was present in thirteen matches for the blues, in which he scored just three goals (his victims were Platense, Talleres and Palmeiras). Too little for a striker of his career and of the international hierarchies, beyond the fact that Jorge Almirón’s Boca were at times much more conservative than imagined.

Even if time passes for everyone and the Uruguayan has already left his best moments behind him, Boca believes that if he is healthy he will be a key piece of the team’s equipment in this 2024 reconstruction. They believe that the duo with Miguel MerentieHe, also Uruguayan, can give excellent dividends.

Cavani’s – and Boca’s – agenda includes January 24th as the departure date, the date on which they will face each other Skip north-central in the first commitment to the Argentine Cup. Days later, the following weekend, there will be the debut in the Professional League Cup against Platense, in Vicente López. The idea is that the Bullfighter could intervene by then. For now, you have to take care of yourself and wait.