Honduras under-23 national team captain Denil Maldonado will undergo emergency surgery after suffering a serious ankle injury, after it was confirmed that his lateral and partially medial ligaments were broken.
The football player who bent his ankle in the final Pre-Olympic in front of Mexico, he left the field on a stretcher. He is already in Chile, where he will be submitted to quickly begin the recovery process that lasts from two to three months, time that would adjust him to reach Tokyo2021.
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The Olympic Games take place between July 23 and August 8; There are more than three months left, but it would come without a rhythm. The footballer has already accepted the recommendations of specialist doctors such as the doctor Oscar Benitez who recommended that the best thing is surgery to repair the damage.
Dr. Óscar Benítez, a specialist in this type of injury, mentioned that he spoke with the selected person to make the recommendation, because it is the only way he can reach the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
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“I instructed him to perform the operation, because it was a third-degree sprain and only then did he have a chance to recover for the Olympics. It’s an injury that has been going on for two to three months,” said Benitez one of the best in orthopedics in the country.
The footballer is very sad, because he loses the entire tournament he would have with the Everton club from Viña del Mar, as he would end his contract in July, when he should be with Bicolor at the Olympic Games.
MALDONADO BINDING DIAGNOSIS
Lateral sprain of the third degree ankle and sprain of the second degree ankle
All three ligaments ruptured from the side:
1. Anterior fibula of the talus
2. nervous heel
3. Posterior peroneoastragalin
These are the three of the lateral part of the medial part is a second degree sprain of the superficial fibers of the deltoid or medial ligament.