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Neymar will have ankle surgery and says goodbye to the season


Neymarstriker for Paris Saint-Germain, will miss the remainder of this season as he has to Undergo an operation to solve his problems in the right ankle. The intervention will involve a recovery period of three to four months.

The decision, according to the club, was made after the footballer suffered a new sprain last February 20. The medical staff recommended that he undergo surgery to avoid a recurrence of his injuries.

With the intervention that is going to be carried out at the ASPETAR hospital in Doha, Neymar tries to glimpse a new horizon in which the part of the body that is generating the most setbacks throughout his career can better support the load of matches and contact with rivals.

The most recent of these injuries occurred as a result of a spectacular twist during a league match against Lille. The injury forced him to leave the field on a stretcher. But it is enough to go back to the month of November to find a similar situation.

The scenario, on that occasion, was more mediatic since Neymar had to withdraw from the opening match of the group stage of the final phase of the World Cup against Serbia. then he was diagnosed an injury to the lateral ligament of the right ankle with a small bone edema. That caused him to miss the two immediately following games against Switzerland and Cameroon.

Before that setback, the former Barcelona player was out for up to 358 days due to injuries to both ankles. Total, 14 different ones throughout his career; the previous one on November 28, 2021, when he was away for two and a half months and missed twelve games with his team.

He also suffered a sprain from December 13, 2020 to January 12, 2021; another month out of competition. three months in total He was there in the summer of 2019, also due to a sprain, an injury that he suffered after being out for four months, between January and April, due to another sprain in that area.

Since 2013, when Neymar landed at Barcelona, a large percentage of their injuries they came for the ankle, and rarely had less than a week off.

Assuming his long period of absence and the subsequent summer break, Neymar will now not have the rush to return that constant competition demands. He leaves then, momentarily, after disputing this course a total of 29 official matches in which he scored 18 goals.