Barca’s central defender evades conservative treatment but is not yet ruled out for the World Cup in Qatar
Bad news for Ronald Araujo, who made the decision to undergo surgery to overcome the injury to the adductor longus tendon in his right thigh that he sustained last Friday in a friendly match with the Uruguayan team against Iran, which they also lost to the South Americans (1-0).
The Uruguayan will of course not reach the classic at the Santiago Bernabeu on October 16, which corresponds to the ninth day of the League, but his big challenge now is to be able to attend the World Cup in Qatar, which starts on November 20 in Doha. It is complicated that he can be with the light blue in this match, but today it is not excluded.
The Barca centre-back, who was also adapted with remarkable performances at the start of the season this season to the right-back in the absence of Jules Koundé, now also out due to the ‘FIFA virus’, has followed the advice of the Barca doctors , confident that surgery guarantees full recovery from the condition. The intention is that he will be operated on in Finland this week, certainly Thursday.
Araujo, who immediately returned to Barcelona after being injured and undergoing tests in Barcelona on Saturday, met early this Monday with those in charge of the Barça club’s medical services and with coach Xavi Hernández.
Together they analyzed the two options that were on the table: surgery or opting for a more conservative treatment. The first possibility, which the footballer himself has always considered, involves staying out of the playing fields for about a month and a half and carries less risk of relapse. In the second, on the other hand, the recovery time is not obvious, but surgery is avoided. From Barça, they were done convincing him to opt for the operating room, especially after verifying that when Umtiti and Ansu Fati ruled out the intervention, the results were not the desired ones.
Araujo, 23, is a fundamental man in the Barcelona plan, a club that recently extended him until 2026, with a 1,000million anti-sheik clause. This course has acted in seven of the eight encounters, between LaLiga and the Champions, played by Barça. In the match against the Iranians in Austria, he barely lasted a minute on the field in the NV Arena.
Source: La Verdad
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