Portuguese international footballer Ricardo Pereira suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury and will miss six months from Leicester, nor is he an option for Portugal in the 2022 World Cup.
He tore his Achilles tendon, it’s a shame, a lot of our game idea over the summer was based on full-backs and him in particular. It was good. It is a hard blow for him. he was operated yesterday [quinta-feira] tonight and I’ll recover,” coach Brendan Rogers said today.
The coach of the “Foxes”, who was speaking in the preview of the first game of the English League, on Sunday, with Brentford, insisted that the 28-year-old Portuguese right-back It is a difficult “fall” for the English team, but it is important to “move on”.
Ricardo Pereira was injured in the friendly that Leicester played this Sunday against Sevilla (1-0), in which the Portuguese defender left in the 40th minute, after injuring himself, without any contact, and with apparent seriousness.
In the conference this Friday, the coach clarified that Ricardo Pereira must “be out for up to six months.”
This is not the first serious injury to the right back.that in March 2020 he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in one knee and was off the pitch for more than eight months, returning in November of that year, already in the following season, missing the Euro2020.
In this way, Ricardo Pereira will once again be left out of Fernando Santos’ options for a major international competition, in this case the 2022 World Cup, which takes place between November 21 and December 18, in Qatar.
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Source: Observadora
