Lucas Passerini, on the cursed list of torn ligaments: Belgrano suffers from losing its two best players due to the same injury

The debut of Belgrano of Cordoba In the South American Cup It ended in the worst way possible. Not for the result, a precious goalless draw against Porto Alegre’s Inter, the “cuckoo” of group C which it shares with Delfín of Ecuador and Real Tomayapo of Bolivia, but for the Serious injury for Lucas Passerini, who tore the cruciate ligaments in his right knee and he entered the cursed list of 20 footballers who play in Argentina and who have already had that diagnosis only in 2024.

It was 31 minutes of the second half at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium when the 29-year-old striker, the great Pirate figure, resisted Vitão’s mark with his back, a habitual movement for him, but this time with bad luck as he bent his right knee and remained stretched out to the ground. He didn’t roll on the grass, but he was left almost unable to move and left the field crying and holding his face. The worst was feared and it was confirmed shortly after: You will have between six and eight months of recovery.

“It’s a shame, I’m really sorry, it’s shit news. every time a player gets hurt. The other day I saw that there are many cases. It is a topic to be studied, the truth is that I cannot find a logical or physiological explanation. We will try to work together to avoid it,” she complained. Eduardo ‘Chacho’ Coudetthe coach of Inter Porto Alegre, after discovering him in the mixed area of ​​the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium.

It joins a spate of ligament injuries severely affecting Argentine football this season. This Monday, Clarion He counted one by one the 18 injuries that left the first twelve rounds of Argentine football. Then Gastón Togni arrived as number 19 and now Passerini is 20th in a long list that continues to add new players.

And the reference, once again, to the words of Jorge Batista, Boca Juniors doctor, is inevitable. “Argentinian football is extremely difficult,” said Batista, who listed some of the causes of this “epidemic” of crusader injuries: “Very tight schedule, playing fields in some cases in very poor condition, tendency to use semi-circular caps instead of round ones, psychological stress.”

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