According to Marca, the 28-year-old - who has just been away for six weeks with a spinal cord injury - is gone for about a month.
A selection of previously more noticeable injuries from the football world:
• Kalle Corneliusson would cut the cucumber in the kitchen when he slipped and cut some tendons in his finger.
• Santiago Cañizares dropped a perfume bottle on his foot and was so badly injured that he missed the 2002 World Cup.
• Éver Banega broke his foot when he forgot to put the handbrake in his car, then it rolled back and over his foot.
• Jari Litmanen was injured when Malmö FF's Sports Manager Hasse Borg opened a soft drink bottle with his snuff box and the cap hit the Litman in the eye.