Thus was left the ankle of Exequiel Zeballos. Photo: Twitter.
Milton Leyendeker’s brutal kick Exequiel Zeballos, a few minutes after the start of the duel between Boca Juniors Y Agricultural for the round of 16 of the Argentine Cup, caused an injury that required surgery for the youth teams of the Xeneize.
It was expected. The young striker’s tears on the bench showed that the area was compromised. Just 24 hours after Salta’s fateful night, the ape was operated on in a clinic in San Isidro for George the Baptist, head of the medical department of Boca Juniors.
For the peace of your family and the people of Boca, everything went well and without major setbacks. Batista himself shared a photo of him on social media this Friday afternoon. In the image you can see a swollen ankle with several bruises. A state expected after such an intervention.
The 20-year-old footballer, who in the past few hours has received the support of his teammates and former teammates on Instagram, was operated on Thursday 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 a medical report released by the Ribera body. And he awaits a long recovery.
“It’s a serious injury but it could have been even worse. The most complex thing to rehabilitate is the ligamentous part, so the foot will be immobilized for several weeks “, confided to Clarione from the club, also aware that there are no equal injuries but patients going through them.
The ape all that remains of the competition in 2022 will be lost, the priority is recovery and rest. And then, get to work getting back as soon as possible to develop the preseason in 2023.
Leyendeker’s hard tackle on Zeballos. Photo: Telam
The recovery
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 him with greater participation and consolidation in the team.
The club, in fact, had given up on the search for Eduardo Salvio’s replacement because it wanted to give continuity to one of the jewels formed in Boca Predio in recent times and the one that had been forged in the last year between the holdings in the Reserve and also alternating with the first team, both with Sebastián Battaglia and with Hugo Ibarra in the last few games.
The week also started with a huge smile for Zeballos: the renewal of the contract (and salary increase) with Boca until 2026 had been a message of the expectations placed on him by Riquelme and company.
Rojo’s message to Zeballos
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. From Pablo Aimar, who directed him in the AFA Sub 15 selection, passing through Carlos Tevez and Juan Román Riquelme, agree that the ape It was the right moment to take off to 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 of him.
Beyond the public apologies of Milton Leyendeker, the Agropecuario footballer who gave Zeballos the brutal kick that injured him 5 minutes into the match, in Boca (he wrote a statement in which he repudiates several publications and memes of several media outlets about the injury) stopped working to cheer up Zeballos, who they have observed sad and inconsolable since the injury. Even the school’s psychological team had talks with him to make him understand that his job now is to prepare for 2023.
Ezequiel Zeballos gives the thumbs up after a successful operation in a San Isidro clinic.
support messages
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 accounts of the club, as well as accompanying Zeballos on behalf of the Football Council in the operation which lasted almost an hour but carried out without complications by the doctors.
Milton Leyendeker, the Agropecuario defender who hit Zeballos and saw a red card. Photo: Capture TV.
For now, and aside from the fact that the AFA regulation gives the club permission to make an incorporation due to Santiago’s injury, Boca will not despair in looking for a player. But it coincides with the closure of the pass markets in both Brazil and Europe.
We are not thinking of adding 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 told from the club.
Source: Clarin
