Bad injury for Diego?

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He's just tweeted saying he's never felt so gutted in his life. Read he was having a scan after getting injured in Italy match
 



Just posted this on other thread.

Hope it aint true but rumours are he has done his cruciate ligament when playing for Italy u 18's?

If so that him out for this season and most of next.....just hope that it aint as bad as it says....

Article here and his latest twitter post does not bode well.....http://www.figc.it/it/204/35337/2013/03/News.shtml


Defeat in a friendly match for the National Under-18 Alberico Evani, beat Austria 2-1 in Salò in front of about 600 spectators. The Azzurrini returned to play in a competitive match in two months after the last engagement in the Memorial Granatkin, it is not enough for the great goal by De Girolamo at the close of the first half, a network that has given Italy the momentary balance after Austria signed the advantage to 22 'from Grillitsch. In the middle of shooting, Austria has indeed found the winning goal with a penalty converted by Bytyqi and in injury time Gerbaudo failed the occasion of 2-2. What makes it more bitter defeat the serious injury occurred in the final race to De Girolamo, who reported a suspected lesion of the anterior cruciate ligament.

'never been so gutted / upset / angry before in my life #LowTimes #WorstMoodEver #OnwardsAndUpwards
 


Our wonderful, prodigious talent as at 4:35.

Unfortunately I think 7:12 is his injury.

I am absolutely gutted for him.

Fucking footballing Gods again, can't they leave us alone ?
 
I don't know if there actually are more, or they are reported more accurately.

If you plant your leg and hit something with your knee or someone drives through your knee, something has to give.

Happened to me as a youngster. Someone took a throw in and the full back spun round quickly and lunged for the ball going straight through my planted knee. Unfortunately, it was my own full back. I just wasn't expecting him to do that. :eek:
 
I feel his pain. I was about his age when a crutiate went pop and put the brakes on my career as a footballer.
 
"Happened to me as a youngster. Someone took a throw in and the full back spun round quickly and lunged for the ball going straight through my planted knee. Unfortunately, it was my own full back. I just wasn't expecting him to do that."

Ditto, never saw the tackle coming, result one ruptured ACL.

Some don't come back from these injuries but alot do. If De Giroloma has relatives over in Italy he'd do himself a favour having warm weather recovery at least until our spring kicks in.
 
Hopefully the scan will come back with good news, but if the physio knows his/her stuff, they'll have felt the give in the joint. Poor lad - it's a criminal thing to happen.

The footballing Gods can indeed fuck off.
 
BornOnShoreham said:
Why are there so many cruciate ligament injuries these days - it's not just us either
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Because people never had them, they have had them fitted as it is a cool thing to talk about when it gets broken. it is a little like O C D.
 
boo radley said:
Because people never had them, they have had them fitted as it is a cool thing to talk about when it gets broken. it is a little like O C D.
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Or maybe in the olden days footballers were real men and played on with dislocated legs and heads etc. Just like Bert Trautmann and the goalie in one of those Pathe newsreels where the goalie played on with a dislocated right arm!

;)
 
scrap said:
Bet its his Left Leg
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If it's the challenge I think it is on the video, then yes it is his left leg. Diego committed an innocuous foul but came off worst. An accident but these things happen.

Let's hope the scan we do doesn't reveal too much damage.
 
Lets hope its not as bad as feared.
Hopefully his age will help in getting back ASAP.
Surely we should get some kind of compensation from the Italian FA for this?
 



In my dad's day they used to talk about a "cartilage injury". Maybe that's the same as a cruciate ligament.

Rotten luck for the lad, but at least he probably wont be sold in the summer! If he can recover fully, then it may not be a disaster - he'll come back physically stronger and be ready to slot into our successful team in the Championship(?!).
 
It'll be a huge shame if it does turn out to be true. Fingers crossed that it isn't as bad as feared, and if it is that he makes a very speedy recovery and it doesn't do long term damage to his career.

It was a great goal he scored for Italy, and his shot that hit the bar just before the goal deserved better too!
 
UnitedBlade said:
If it's the challenge I think it is on the video, then yes it is his left leg. Diego committed an innocuous foul but came off worst. An accident but these things happen.

Let's hope the scan we do doesn't reveal too much damage.
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He has a problem with His Hips, which I was worried about. Not unexpected to be honest. Great young Player.
 
broomhillblade said:
In my dad's day they used to talk about a "cartilage injury". Maybe that's the same as a cruciate ligament.

Rotten luck for the lad, but at least he probably wont be sold in the summer! If he can recover fully, then it may not be a disaster - he'll come back physically stronger and be ready to slot into our successful team in the Championship(?!).
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As I understand it, cartilages are in the knee joint to stop the kneebones rubbing against each other. The ligaments are at either side of the knee to hold the knee joint together. The ligaments are similar to elastic bands
in that they can stretch too far and it can take ages for them to get back to normal but even longer (If ever) if they tear or snap.

Fingers crossed for the lad
 
Hodgyman said:
As I understand it, cartilages are in the knee joint to stop the kneebones rubbing against each other. The ligaments are at either side of the knee to hold the knee joint together. The ligaments are similar to elastic bands
in that they can stretch too far and it can take ages for them to get back to normal but even longer (If ever) if they tear or snap.

Fingers crossed for the lad
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Ligaments don't repair themselves, but you can function without a cruciate in tact. The cruciate primarily stabilises the knee. If it gets torn or ruptured the normal thing for footballers is surgery... Which means a lay off of about a year.

Some sports players with large muscle bulk around the knee (such as rugby league players) are able to stabilise the knee with the muscles and there have been cases whereby players play for years with a ruptured cruciate ligaments but it only becomes a problem I'm later life when the muscles naturally waste. I read a long time ago that there are cases where ruptured cruciate a have been reabsorbed into the body!

The key with Diego is whether it is an Anterior Cruciate Ligament tear/ rupture as this is obviously the worst case scenario. Injuries to other knee ligaments are generally not so bad and can take a much shorter time to mend
 
It could just be a case of someone from the club telling him not to share too much, but the tweet about him being gutted has gone, and he's been tweeting a bit over the last few days.

I might be trying a little too hard to find a positive, but fingers crossed.
 
BornOnShoreham said:
Or maybe in the olden days footballers were real men and played on with dislocated legs and heads etc. Just like Bert Trautmann and the goalie in one of those Pathe newsreels where the goalie played on with a dislocated right arm!

;)
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I played on for half an hour with a broken leg once! Thanks.
 
I've had the displeasure of tearing my cartilege twice and rupturing my anterior cruciate ligament all at different times all in the same knee. Initially, the cartilege was worse as I couldn't straighten my leg or put any weight on it at all and an op occured within a couple of days on both occasions. The recovery was done within a few months. The ACL is a much longer process - after a week on crutches I had an op about a year after the rupture. Swiss is right in that it is not essential to have it repaired - you can live a normal life with a ruptured ACL but getting back to sport is different and unless you have massive muscle bulk you have to get your knee restructered else it will just keep on buckling. I did not play football for about 2 years after my operation but then I didn't have physio day in day out and now I play regular 5 a side but I have to keep the muscles strong around my knee with gym work. On paper, when a restructure occurs it should make the knee stronger than the original but there are possible complications. Some players lose their confidence in the knee and are not the same player and some come back hungrier and more appreciative of their 'gift' than before. I hope Diego is the latter.
Oh, I forgot as well - I strained my knee ligaments (same knee) and whilst that was uncomfortable and painful I was ok within weeks. This occured a week before I got married, our lass weren't happy when I was on crutches days before we tied the knot.
With me there is no way I could do 11 a side regularly as my knee swells after each time I play 5 a side weekly but it's not painful. I think this was Morg's problem and possibly Dane Whitehouse.
I'm only 33 and still awaiting a call from Roy Hodgson.
 
Diego's misfortune may be a blessing for United. If we don't get promoted then we'd sell him for nothing. if we get promoted then he will have to prove over the injury in a higher division. If by some miracle of miracles we make the prem and he's that class at least we'd get even more money.
 



BornOnShoreham said:
Or maybe in the olden days footballers were real men and played on with dislocated legs and heads etc. Just like Bert Trautmann and the goalie in one of those Pathe newsreels where the goalie played on with a dislocated right arm!

;)
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The keeper who carried on with the dislocated shoulder you mentioned was Ken Nethercott of Norwich in the 1959 FA Cup 6th round. He never played again after that game
 
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