The goal is still walking on the crutch

There are four Real Sociedad players who have not yet started the holiday. Ay Mikel Oyarzabal, Ander Barrenetxea, Carlos Fernandez Y Martin Merquelanz. The four are recovering from serious injuries, but each goes their own way. Fernandez Y barrenetxea they hope they will be able to start the next preseason with everyone from July 7, while the captain and Irun’s left arm are impossible.

Oyarzabal, the aim with the crutch

Oyarzabal participate in Anoeta in an act with children with barrenetxea and the pictures show that he is still walking with the help of crutches. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in training on March 16 and underwent surgery on the 24th of the same month for Michael Sanchez in Gasteiz. The message they sent from Real is that rehabilitation is on the right track and it ends the usual stages without haste and without skipping any step.

However, other sources point out to MD that, two months after surgery, he should be able to walk without the help of a crutch. The workload should be progressive and standard treatment establishes that after the sixth week the knee should have regained all mobility. The usual thing is that soccer players who suffer this type of injury can train in the fourth month -this is in July for Eibarrés-, although in any case they do not receive a release and permission to play until after six months -it will be September-, which could be eight -November-.

Barrenetxea, damaged since January

Ander Barrenetxea, meanwhile, is recovering from a serious injury sustained in the first game of the year on Jan. 2 against Alavés in Mendizorroza. the famous Lasse Lempainen He underwent surgery for “severe injury, with tendon involvement, of the left hamstring muscle”, which forced him to say goodbye to the season. A few weeks ago it reappeared on Zubieta and forecasts suggest it will start all over in July.

Fernández, from Seville with permission

Carlos Fernández, meanwhile, is recovering in Seville with the club’s permission from an injury that has forced him to spend the entire current season blank, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. In July, when his illness was a year old, he hoped to participate in training with everyone and play with friends. Supervision of his rehabilitation was carried out from Gipuzkoa by specialists from Real.

Martin MerquelanzFor his part, he had to wait longer. On the 10th of this month, he underwent surgery for a complex cartilage lesion of his left knee, in which an autologous chondrocyte implant was performed on a membrane at the Cemtro clinic in Madrid. A few days ago he said goodbye to fans of Rayo Vallecano, a team to which he was loaned, and undergoing a slow rehabilitation at Real, where he has a contract until 2025.