Male: “Now we have to go back to the market.” The plant returned to Italy for investigations on the right knee: Imoco will look for a replacement between Asia and South America
CONEGLIANO. Sarah Fahr’s European championship ended in the third set of Italy-Croatia on Wednesday evening. The blue will continue the continental tournament with only three central players, Danesi, Chirichella and Bonifacio and the central will return to Italy today, as the Federation has made known, “to carry out further investigations at the Villa Stuart Clinic in Rome”.
The ligaments could be affected: the player, the statement reads, “reported a sprained trauma of the right knee. In the light of the evaluation carried out by Dr. Favoriti and the instrumental tests performed in Zara, the athlete will reach Italy for other checks. Waiting for the official reports, the concern remains alive, immediately visible also in the eyes of the companions and in that of the many fans who were in front of the TV (almost 1.7 million spectators with 9% share).
Judging by the quantity and tone of the messages that came to her via social media from fellow players and even physiotherapists, who understand that type of injuries, things might not be light: they know something about Raphaela Folie and Caterina Bosetti, who in 2018 received the treatment of Professor Pier Paolo Mariani in the well-known Roman clinic. This is also confirmed by the co-president of Imoco Volley Pietro Maschio: «When you turn to Villa Stuart it is never a good thing; we await the results of the exams and then we will decide what to do. I am especially sorry for Sarah, even if we know that injuries are part of the game: there is never a good moment, this time it happened to us in August, other times in full playoffs ».
The prognosis may not be light, given previous experiences among panthers with their knees (De Kruijf and Folie). “It will certainly take a few months – adds Maschio – to be optimistic those of the regular season (February 2022, ed) and the goals of our season force us to make choices, that is to return to the market ». In Conegliano, which already has five foreigners in the team, there remains a free seat for a non-Italian player; research could go a long way. «Unfortunately there is not a great choice: in Europe the rosters are already made and I think there are no margins, so we will try to look further. The calendar looms with the Super Cup in five weeks, then the Champions League, the World Cup in December, the Italian Cup in early January: we need to find a solution quickly, also based on the diagnosis on Fahr ».
Excluding the USA, having Courtney (now married) and Plummer already on the team, it is likely that the search can go to Asia (perhaps China) or South America (Brazil in primis). It was from 2018/19 that Imoco was not forced to reopen its market: Samadan replaced Folie for the first part of the season, Lowe took over from Nagaoka in January.
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