PSG, why these operations in Finland?

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By: Manu Tournoux

Like Nuno Mendes, PSG players are now willingly sent to Finland to undergo their surgical procedures. Explanations.

Under the control of QSI, PSG can boast of having privileged relations with the famous Aspetar center in Doha, the sports medicine and orthopedic hospital in Qatar with the Fifa brand. Faced with Nuno Mendes’ persistent injury, however, it was not to the Middle East that the Parisian club sent their player but to Finland. Where a certain Lasse Lempainen officiates.

It was this surgeon who on Friday operated on the young Portuguese full-back, victim of a ligament rupture in the ischios of his right leg last July. With a disturbed convalescence which this week called for this implacable decision by the club: “ After new medical examinations and a new in-depth study of Nuno Mendes’ situation, the Paris Saint-Germain medical department made the decision to carry out surgery this Friday in Finland. »

Like Mukiele and Dembélé

Before Nuno Mendes, Nordi Mukiele, for an upper hamstring injury contracted last season, followed the same path. “ My young colleague and student, Professor Lasse Lempainen, continues my workexplains in the pages of Le Parisien the eminent professor Sakari Orava, recently retired at the age of 75 after having built his reputation by repairing the muscular injuries of sports stars – starting with Ousmane Dembélé, twice, during his years Barcelona. Football players from forty countries have already come to Finland. There are injuries for which we have invented operations. »

For this, Lasse Lempainen, who has become a reference in his turn, boasts of collaborating with prestigious teams such as FC Barcelona, ​​AS Roma and AC Milan. “ 16 players from Barcelona and 15 from Milan have already undergone surgery by our services », confirms Sakari Orava. For Nuno Mendes, the intervention is already considered a success. The Parisian defender is expected on the field in four months.