The Calvary of Chimy Ávila: second crusader break in eight months

We had to wait for the medical tests at the University of Navarra Clinic to confirm it in the afternoon, but Chimy Ávila himself was clear about the diagnosis from the first moment.

Still lying on the grass in Tajonar, the Argentine striker found that the pain and the rest of the sensations he had were the same as those unfortunately he had known in January.

A sunken striker, a club in shock and a fans in panic.

In the late afternoon, Osasuna confirmed what everyone had feared: a torn cruciate ligament.

The nightmare is repeated for Chimy, one of the revelation players of last season until the moment of his first injury.

His character fit perfectly with Osasuna's idiosyncrasies and

system

allowed him to exploit all his qualities.

At the time of his first injury, he added nine goals in 20 appearances, almost one every two games, an extraordinary statistic for a team recently promoted to the First Division as the Navarrese was at that time.

So spectacular was his performance that his name was linked to Barcelona, ​​first in the ordinary winter market and later after the injury of

, which led the Catalans to finally reinforce themselves with

.

The Argentine's option, with a

, evaporated on January 24 during a match against Levante.

He fell badly to the ground after a jump and his left knee broke.

The anterior cruciate ligament had been torn and the season was coming to an end.

His return to Mirandés

Then came the pandemic and confinement and Chimy published videos on his social networks that heralded a resounding recovery.

The forced lengthening of the season gave him hopes of returning before the summer.

From the club, they even had to stop his feet, making him see that the best thing for the knee was to wait until this course, even more so given the comfortable qualifying situation with which the Navarrese club arrived in the last days, more than saved.

Heading into this season, Chimy was completing the preseason normally.

On August 26, seven months and a day after the injury, he dressed short again in a friendly match against

and was even aiming for the starting position in Saturday's league debut against Cádiz.

However, in training this Wednesday, after a set with Aridane, those sensations of January were repeated.

Osasuna loses his goal man again, practically for the whole season

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