Exequiel Zeballos walked through the operating room and Boca opened a window to bring in another backup

The serious injury he suffered Exequiel Zeballos (20 years old) in the match against Agropecuario in Salta per la Argentine Cup it ended with an operation and the start of a rehabilitation that will be extensive. And even if the competition for this 2022 is over for the youth of Mouth (there are two months left to the end of the championship and the Argentine Cup), at the club, and in the intimacy of the Santiago forward’s family, the priority now is to get to work to return as soon as possible, as soon as possible for the beginning of next year, with the illusion of being able to develop a good part of the 2023 preseason.

The attacker has intervened in San Isidro since Doctor Jorge Battista (Head of the Club’s Medical Department) for an injury to the “distal tibiofibular syndesmosis with lesion of the deltoid ligament and avulsion of the posterior malleolus of the right ankle”, according to what is detailed in a complete medical and technical part that Boca has disseminated. “It’s a serious injury but it could have been even worse. The most complex thing to rehabilitate is the ligamentous part, which is why the foot will be immobilized for several weeks “they relied on Clarione from the club, also aware that there are no equal injuries but patients going through them.

How long do you think it will take for recovery? A minimum of 8 weeks. And from there on, the set-up to reinforce the leg again and then move on to work on the field and the ball. A long way for a player who felt that this season finale would have it with greater participation and consolidation in the team. The club, in fact, had given up on the search for Eduardo Salvio’s replacement because he wanted to give continuity to one of the jewels formed in Properties of the mouth in the last half and to which he was forging in the last year between participations in the Reserve and also alternating with the first team, both with Sebastián Battaglia and with Hugo Ibarra in the last matches.

The week also started with a big smile for Zeballos: the renewal of the contract (and the salary improvement) with Boca until 2026 It had been a message of the expectations placed on him by Riquelme and company. Furthermore, the affection received on social networks from teammates (almost all the squad expressed themselves there to wish him the courage to face this unexpected scenario) shows a beloved footballer to be respectful and professional.

This injury will, after all, be the first great gambeta in a career that has marked him for a long time as a different player. By Pablo Aimar, who guided him in the AFA Sub 15 selection, through Carlos Tevez and Juan Román Riquelme, cagree that the ape I was at the right time for take-off become a decisive player for Boca, where he already had 46 appearances (24 as a starter, with 5 goals converted) and a whole future ahead.

Beyond the public apology of Milton Leyendekerthe Agropecuario footballer who gave Zeballos the brutal kick that injured him 5 minutes into the match, in Boca (he wrote a statement repudiating several publications and memes from different media about the injury) they stopped to work to cheer up Zeballos, who have observed sad and inconsolable from the moment of the injury. The campus psychological team also had talks with him to make him understand that his job now is to fully anticipate 2023.

With his family, his partner and a friend of the representative company that runs it, Zeballos also received the support of the Boca fans of several affiliates in the North Zone who came to the door of the hospital where he was operated on to give him love. . It is that he is one of the young people that Boca fans love the most and have expressed it in this way from the networks.

“Fight and come back, Chango, stronger than ever. The people of Boca are with you “was written by the various official reports of the club, as well as accompanying Zeballos on behalf of the Football Council in the operation which lasted almost an hour but performed without complications by the doctors.

For now, and beyond the fact that the AFA regulations give the club permission to make an incorporation due to Santiago’s injury, andn Boca will not despair when looking for a player. But it coincides with the closure of the pass markets in both Brazil and Europe. “We are not planning to add a player but we know that there may be opportunities for players who do not close in certain clubs and can offer them to us. In two months the tournament ends but soon another transfer window opens again. That’s why we will analyze everything “they said from the club.