Alejandro “Papu” Gómez underwent successful surgery

The world champion Alejandro “Papu” Gómez, footballer of Sevilla of Spain, was successfully subjected today to an arthroscopy in the right ankle product of the injury he suffered during the Qatar 2022 World Cup and that left him out of the last matches. Thanks for the messages, they are the best. The operation went well,” the former Arsenal of Sarandí, San Lorenzo and Atalanta of Italy posted on his Instagram account.Earlier, the midfielder had posted on his social networks a photo of his very inflamed ankle and wrote: “That’s how it all started, I don’t regret anything. I gave everything of myself to win the World Cup and today my ankle is paying for it, but how beautiful was that sacrifice, that same effort I made to return two months later at Sevilla, trying everything.” The 34-year-old missed, in Qatar, the quarterfinal matches against the Netherlands, the semifinal against Croatia and the final against France.After the celebrations in Argentina, he returned to Seville and began a recovery for an affectation of the deltoid ligament of the right ankle. He was in the squad for a couple of La Liga matches, but the club’s medical staff decided it would be best to have an operation and then about five weeks of rehabilitation.

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