I don't know anything about the procedure, but in the photo above, is he exercising before surgery, or is that an old stock photo of him? (It seems to me that he wouldn't want to exercise/stress the ACL prior to surgery.)
It's a video from his Instagram story. In it, he's moving REALLY slowly and gingerly (also wearing flipflops). He's also using a "full-body" exercise bike, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's modified to take as much stress off his knee as possible.
The left-back has torn his cruciate ligament and will be out for at least nine months https://www.ad.nl/nederlands-voetba...sergino-dest-het-is-verschrikkelijk~a4533017/
9?! Wow. I suppose that's standard and it seems longer for a guy who hasn't had any real major injuries that I can recall.
Yeah... I went and looked at his injury history and while he has had quite a few short stints over the years the max number of days missed due to an injury was 30. So this will certainly be a new experience for him. Too bad this is all too familiar WRT YAs. Just ridiculous. You can nearly make an under 25 best 11 YA team w/ at least one injury spanning over 6 months.
This would never happen if we simply banned inter-continental plane travel for US Soccer players. You wanna call up someone playing in Europe? Charter a boat.
I shudder think what the score line today would've been with dest on the field. Currently crushing Heerenveen 8-0
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C6bT4H2rFcp/ Injury update video posted by Serg to his IG reel: confirms it's a torn ACL, is undergoing surgery "soon". No timeline specifically mentioned. Hope he's got some of that Weston in him!
🚨🇺🇸 Barça right back Sergino Dest will be out until 2025 due to ACL injury, as club confirms.PSV Eindhoven wanted to trigger €10m buy option for Dest, they are very happy with the player but injury can change the situation in terms of negotiations. pic.twitter.com/UXCMCqkFEH— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) May 1, 2024
A message from Sergiño to you 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/9wqbPG48mW— PSV (@PSV) May 1, 2024 A version of the video that is embeddable here