This was confirmed by the Cosenza player, who barely played 144 minutes in his new club. He will require surgery on his left knee.
Mauro Zarate suffered the cruciate ligament tear in one of his kneeswhile defending the Cosenza shirt, from the second division of soccer in Italia.
The 35-year-old forward reported the serious injury through his social networks and confirmed his condition this Sunday, which will require reconstructive surgery that will take him away from the courts.
“Unfortunately the exams have detected an injury to my cruciate ligament and in the next few days I will undergo an operation to start my recovery,” the former player of Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors and Platense, among other clubs, wrote on his Facebook page.
Zárate was injured last Saturday in the match that Cosenza equalized without goals with Sudtirol, for the 25th. date of the Serie B tournament.
The striker should leave the field of play 10 minutes into the second periodbeing replaced by Massimo Zilli, as recorded by “Soccerway”.
Also a former Lazio and Inter player, both from Italy, He could barely play 144 minutes with his new clubwhich he arrived at in early January.
He had arrived earlier this year, signing ccontract for six months. Now, faced with this misfortune, they will offer to renew.
“Sociedad Cosenza Calcio informs that, during yesterday’s match, the footballer Mauro Zárate suffered trauma due to deformation in the left knee. The diagnostic tests carried out this morning revealed the capsular ligament involvement (anterior cruciate ligament injury),” the club explained in a statement.
“The Company wants Mauro, who immediately showed a great attachment to the t-shirt and put his talent and experience at the disposal of his teammates and coaching staff, return to the pitch as soon as possible and propose the striker to renew his current contract as a sign. thanks and encouragementor for a prompt return”, they continued.
Cosenza is not going through a good momentsince it is in the last position in series B, with just 23 points.
Ángel Di María, in Qatar 2022 mode
Meanwhile, as in the final of the Argentine National Team against France in the last World Cup, the man from Rosario was essential to achieve the long-awaited victory of Juventus against Spezia, when he made it 2-0 with which his team reached the seventh position of the Serie A of Calcio.
That Juve continue with options to enter Europe, that is not flirting with relegation, that is in the semifinals of the Italian Cup and that can enter the round of 16 of the Europa League has a great culprit: “Fideo” Di María.
It is that since he returned from the World Cup, he has proclaimed himself the undisputed leader of a dysfunctional Juventus without the Argentine on the pitch.
Allegri reserved it thinking about the return of the Europa League against French Nantes, like Bremer, Szczesny or Chiesa -not even called-.
But he had to call on his services as a firefighter in the second half to avoid the fire that was about to ignite, with Spezia dominating the bianconeri and coming close to scoring on several occasions.
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