Ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knees in football are making clubs bitter this season. If “the normal thing” was that we break “per team every two seasons”, the truth is that “the statistics” regarding injuries of this type “have increased”, even if “we have to wait” until the end of the current season. campaign to confirm this. He speaks Manuel Leyeseminence of sports medicine and a doctor under whose operating room this fateful 2024, great athletes like Caroline Marin either Daniel Carvajalwhich assists OKDIARIO in the analysis of this “epidemic” which is currently plaguing football.
In just three months of the season, 29 players suffered this injury. Seven fell Spaina data that Leyes compares with the 13 of 2022-23 to describe the increase, three of them having occurred last weekend. Enric Franquesa, Ilias Akhomach And Eder Militao They said goodbye to the season on a black Saturday for the League. Leyes was precisely the one in charge of the operation of the Brazilian center of the the real Madrid after breaking the cross San Mames in August 2023.
“It is not only a scourge for Real Madrid, but for world football,” explains the doctor who, at the start of this campaign, has already operated on young people. Jeanne Martinezwho had the misfortune to fall when everything indicated that he would be part of the plans of Carlo Ancelotti in the first team. The white club has already accumulated four cross breaks in this start alone, including that of the aforementioned defender. The factory and his partner Cesar Palacios.
But what everyone is wondering are the causes of this “epidemic”, a concept that Leyes has already invented, guided “by the statistics of this season”. We talk about the use of inappropriate shoes by footballers, the type of grass or the training sessions and although Manuel Leyes thinks that all this “can influence”, he illustrates the ruptures that occurred at Real Madrid to affirm that ” They I haven’t been in the same field.”
“The players barely rest for three whole days”
Among those produced during the last two seasons, three have been on the field of Santiago Bernabéu (David AlabaCarvajal and the second from Militao), two in Valdebébas (Thibaut Courteous and Joan Martínez) and two on different grounds (the first of Militao at the stadium of the Athletics club and César Palacios in USA).
And another reason is that “players have trouble sleeping after a match and they don’t even have three full days to rest. “Besides, today the matches last longer, they play more minutes .” Leyes thus refers to the controversial issue of the busy schedule, which is why “all players complain about the accumulation of matches and the intensity of the workload.”
Worse still, the League referees do not show consideration towards the players and follow the orders of the managers. Technical Arbitration Committee (CTA) to add long downtimes which “increase the risk of exposure to football”. “It is difficult to prove whether this has an influence, but the longer the minutes, the greater the risk of injury,” adds the Crusaders operations expert.
The Militao crossover affair
In the case of Militao, the latest star to suffer this injury, Leyes is clear that despite “a huge mess”, the defenders “always come back”. “The defender has a greater tendency to break because he does not take the initiative of the game and must react to what the attacker does,” he specifies, but it is still encouraging that at 26 years and with the experience of having overcome an identical problem with the other knee, the Brazilian can return to his highest level: “Defenders break down more often, but attackers take longer to return to the same level. “
