Beth Mead is among a host of players sidelined with ACL injuries, yet Fifa’s response is to add more games to a packed schedule
in her knee in November, before Miedema, the Women’s Super League record goalscorer, did the same this month. Both will probably miss the Women’s World Cup next year in Australia and New Zealand.
The double Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas was cruelly ruled out with an ACL injury on the eve of Euro 2022, with Spain the bookies’ favourites to win. France’s Marie-Antoinette Katoto ruptured her ACL during the tournament. Chloe Kelly, Dzsenifer Marozsan, Kyah Simon, Ellie Brazil, Ellie Carpenter, Jessica Ziu, Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah, Simone Magill, Ada Hegerberg, Christen Press and Catarina Macario have all been sidelined by the knee ligament injury in the last year.
How quickly would clubs and the governing bodies of the game get to the heart of an injury problem if it was Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Kevin De Bruyne affected by the same injury within months of each other? Can you imagine if any of those players had suffered the same injury three times in their career, like the two-time World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe has?We would have state-of-the-art research, technology and money pouring in to solve the problem or limit it.
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