Landed at PSG in the summer of 2017 for some 222 million euros, Neymar already left people fearing the worst regarding the condition of his ankle…
It was in front of his television that Neymar followed the hot clash between Brazil and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Consequence of the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligaments and the meniscus of the left knee which he suffered last October during the defeat conceded against Uruguay. Yet another setback for the Brazilian who has suffered a string of serious injuries since signing for PSG in the summer of 2017.
Having become the most expensive player in history thanks to the 222 million euros paid by PSG to snatch the Brazilian from Barça, Neymar notably suffered two serious foot injuries in 2018 and 2019, then his ankle in 2023. But The Team made this Wednesday, a huge revelation about the former Barcelona player: he indeed arrived at PSG with a stress fracture in the fifth metatarsal of his right foot!
And if Eric Rolland, doctor of the capital club at that time, took refuge behind medical secrecy, a former doctor of the France team provided his insight. “ The factors (to explain the repeated injuries in this area for Neymar) are many, explains a former doctor of the French football team. There is his morphology, his physical constitution. His style of play, made of dribbling and very dynamic support, is also an explanation. Then, when we look closely at his injuries to the fifth metatarsal (in 2018 after a duel with Marseillais Bouna Sarr and in 2019 after three fouls by Strasbourg’s Moataz Zemzemi), they are traumatic. Both times, he was injured after duels which unbalanced him in his supports. He did not have a series of muscle problems, so to suggest that these injuries are linked to his lifestyle is neither fair nor accurate. he first confided, adding: “Perhaps he should have been operated on.. But sometimes these stress fractures don’t get worse and don’t require intervention. »
