{"id":440068,"date":"2023-07-18T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440068"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:21:37","slug":"fofana-out-for-months-after-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fofana-out-for-months-after-acl-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fofana out for months after ACL surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Fofana has undergone a successful anterior cruciate ligament surgery, which is set to rule him out for several months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Chelsea defender Wesley Fofana broke his ACL. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fofana has undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWesley will now begin his recovery and work with the club&#39;s medical department at Cobham during his rehabilitation phase\u201d, club reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hahMVmcMMU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hahMVmcMMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1681301089432535043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The young defender skipped the Blues&#8217; pre-season tour to the United States in order to have &#8220;specialist medical assessments&#8221;. And the tests indeed confirmed that operation is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wesley will now begin his recovery and work with the club&#8217;s medical department at Cobham during his rehabilitation phase,&#8221; a club\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The news is another setback for Fofana, who has suffered a lot from injuries, having broken his leg back in August 2021 in Leicester, which ruled him out for 7 months.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Fofana missed 4 months with injury complications to his knee and registered only 20 starts for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The news are also a blow for the team, who just offloaded defenders Cesar Azpilicueta and Kalidou Koulibaly and will need every bit of backing in the defense line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Fofana has undergone a successful anterior cruciate ligament surgery, which is set to rule him out for several months. BREAKING: Chelsea defender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":440069,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,20487],"acf":{"announce":"The Chelsea's defender will be sidelined for a long time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440068"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440068"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}