Honduras Under-23 National Team captain Denil Maldonado will undergo emergency surgery following a serious ankle injury after it was confirmed that his lateral and partial medial ligaments had been torn.
The footballer who entered the final of the Pre-Olympic for Mexico he left the field on a stretcher. He is already in Chile, where he will be filed to begin the recovery process swiftly that will go from two to three months, a time that would adjust him to reach Tokyo2021.
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The Olympic Games will be held from July 23 to August 8; There are more than three months left, but it would come without a rhythm. The football player has already adopted the recommendations of specialist doctors such as the doctor Oscar Benitez who advised that surgery is best to repair the damage.
Doctor Óscar Benítez, a specialist in these types of injuries, said he has spoken to the selected person to make the recommendation, as this is the only way he can make it to the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
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“I guided him to perform the surgery because it was a grade three sprain and only then has the opportunity to recover for the Olympics. It’s an injury that’s been going on for two to three months,” said Benítez, a of the best in orthopedics in the country.
The footballer is very sad as he loses the entire tournament he would have at the Everton club in Viña del Mar as he was due to cancel his contract in July, at which point he should be with the Bicolor at the Olympics.
DIAGNOSIS OF MALDONADO INJURY
Grade three lateral ankle sprain and grade two medial ankle sprain
All three ligaments of the lateral part were torn:
1. Front talus fibula
2. nerve heel
3. Peroneoastragalino posterior
Those are the three of the lateral part of the medial side is a grade two sprain of the superficial fibers of the deltoid or medial ligament.