"The NWSLPA is proud to join Project ACL, which brings together players, leagues and researchers to better understand ACL injuries. That understanding requires looking beyond the individual and examining the conditions players train and compete in each day. Project ACL is an opportunity to build the kind of player-centric evidence that can lead to meaningful changes across women's professional soccer."
Medical tests have shown that #BarçaAtlètic player Juan Hernández has suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. In the coming days, he will undergo surgical intervention.
"The discomfort had been with me since before the Gold Cup; as a player, you say it's nothing, that you have to keep going, but after each match the pain began to get worse and worse, until it reached a point where it was really bad."
As they write, the Serbian has suffered a 'high-impact direct trauma', due to the tackle from Ignace Van der Brempt, who did not even get booked... The defender has been left with a 'large hematoma of the soft tissue and edematous-hemorrhagic imbibition of the fibular bone without interruption of the cortex'. In other words, a very strong blow, but not a fracture.