Europe 1 with AFP 9:14 p.m., September 05, 2022
The star of the France team Paul Pogba, 29, will have to undergo surgery for a lesion of the lateral meniscus of the right knee.
A news that makes his participation in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar more and more hypothetical.
The date of this operation has not been specified.
The star of the France team Paul Pogba finally had to resolve on Monday to undergo a right knee operation, an option he had refused in early August, an intervention which casts a shadow on his participation in the World Cup-2022 at the end of year.
"Pogba went out this (Monday) morning to train, but he stopped and decided to have surgery," Juventus Turin coach Massimiliano Allegri announced in Paris on the eve of the League of Nations match. champions against PSG.
The coach said he was not counting on the midfielder until the Italian championship was suspended in mid-November due to the World Cup.
The Italian media spoke on Monday of an unavailability of around six to eight weeks, which in theory would allow the 2018 world champion to be able in extremis to be included by Didier Deschamps in the list of Blues.
Repeated injuries
From a source close to the club, it is specified that a press release will be issued after the operation, the date of which has not been specified, on the details of this intervention, a new blow for a player immersed in the midst of a family affair against a backdrop of charges of "attempted extortion".
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Pogba, 29, part of Didier Deschamps' France team crowned world champions in 2018, has been arrested since the end of July due to a "lateral meniscus lesion" in his right knee suffered during the tour of the United States. United of the Bianconeri.
His last season had already ended early in April due to calf discomfort.
Before that, he had already missed four months of competition, from November 2021 to February 2022, due to a thigh injury.