A new injury to the left knee of Jefferson Farfán, the 36-year-old forward who plays for Alianza Lima and is key in the Peruvian national team led by Ricardo Gareca, will keep him away from the 2021 Copa América and several World Cup qualifying matches to Qatar 2022.
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In principle, Farfán would not play the Cup and the restart of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, as the injury to a cartilage in his left knee has worsened, an ailment that kept him away from the playing fields for almost all of last year.
The period that the player will be out of the courts is indeterminate, since he needs to undergo medical examinations to know, for sure, the seriousness of his ailment.
The RPP Noticias station assured that after learning this information, the Argentine national team coach, Ricardo Gareca, decided that the player will not be called up for the next double date of the qualifiers that Peru will play against Colombia and Ecuador, or for the Cup. America.
Force, ‘Jeffry’! Jefferson Farfán set off the alarms in Alianza Lima, but especially in the Peruvian National Team, after again feeling discomfort in his left knee, as in his previous injury for which he had to undergo surgery … https: // t .co / ua394y8OvY
– Federation of Journalists of Peru (@FPP_Noticias)
May 20, 2021
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Farfán will also miss the next matches for Alianza Lima, the team led by Carlos Bustos, also from Argentina.
For its part, the newspaper El Comercio detailed that “La ‘Foquita” once again suffers from ailments in the left knee, from which the ligaments were operated and then a cleaning was carried out due to a dissecting osteochondritis, and that in the selection “they consider discounted that he can participate in the continental tournament. “
In this regard, Dr. Julio Grados, who was a doctor for the Peruvian teams, pointed out that the injury suffered by Farfán is very complicated and would even question his continuity in football.
“You have to think about what to do under the prognosis of a better life for Jefferson. In my experience, it is very difficult for him to continue in activity. It is up to the player to decide how long he is going to force that knee,” Grados told Radio Ovación.
After knowing the situation of the striker, who scored one of the two goals with which Peru defeated New Zealand and qualified for a soccer World Cup after 36 years, in Russia 2018, the local media indicated that Gareca will choose his replacement between the Peruvian-Mexican Santiago Ormeño and Alex Valera, one of the revelations of the local tournament.
Speculation on this issue will be settled this Friday, when Gareca offers the official list of those called up to the national team at a press conference.
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