Alex Silva update

By: Chris | July 8th, 2009

This afternoon’s edition of the Abendblatt confirms an ACL tear. His surgery is scheduled for later this week as the swelling subsides. His prognosis is to be out for 6 to 12 months, and realistically, it will be something toward the latter end of that range.

Anyone who is interested in the physiological aspects of this injury can follow this link. Knee injuries are not uncommon in most “American” sports (gridiron football, basketball, baseball) so those of us in the States have had some media exposure to this injury, as do many football fans worldwide. Alex Silva’s countryman Ronaldo seems to have recovered pretty well from his two knee injuries, so let’s hope he calls AS and cheers him up. One thing I will tell you, to a man every player that I have read about who recovers from this injury says the most difficult part of recovery is trusting the knee when you need to plant and change direction. Hopefully, AS will recovery quickly and fully and be back on the pitch in the Ruckründe.

UPDATED 8 July, 22:54 GMT–Alex Silva is out for the season. Here’s the story.

Category: Bundesliga, Player News, Team News, Transfer Rumors

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Bundesliga, Hamburger SV, Player News, SV Hamburg, Team News, Transfer Rumors

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• Juliet |  July 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

  
  
  

  Oh damn. I hate to hear of any player being injured so severely. This was the same injury that took out Hoffenheim’s Ibesevic, I think. Best of luck to Silva in his recovery now, and his confidence later. *sigh* At least Hamburg have some time to compensate in the transfer market.

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• g |  July 8th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

  
  
  

  We have SOME options…
  Rost
  Benjamin/Demel Mathijsen Boateng Jansen (Aogo)

  Jarolim Troche Pitroipa Ze Roberto CASTELEN
  (REALLY excited he finally gets to play)
  Rincon Tavares and Tesche might turn out alright

  Guerrero (Berg) Petric and Elia

  One more center D and we’re good to go!
  still miss didi though…

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• Chris |  July 9th, 2009 at 6:08 am

  
  
  

  g, I agree that if we land Berg and get a central D on the cheap, we are sitting pretty. The name that keeps popping up is Bastian Reinhardt, and as a sub, I think that makes sense. I think he lost a step, but in Europa Cup group play or qualifying, he could be extremely valuable.

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• Mark |  July 9th, 2009 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  I’m sure this is unrealistic, but are Real Madrid still less-than-satisfied with Christoph Metzelder? That would be a sweet acquistion for a center back, but maybe at too high a price. Just throwing that out there!

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• Chris |  July 14th, 2009 at 7:50 am

  
  
  

  There are 2 really crappy things about his injury–1) he tore the same ligment in 2007; 2) he did not follow the offseason training program given to him by the club to *PREVENT* another occurence of this injury and showed up to camp over-weight. SIGH.

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