Lionel Messi Injury: Updates on Barcelona Star's Knee
Bleachersreport, December 5, 2012
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World football fans everywhere, it's time to hold your breath: All-planet star Lionel Messi left Wednesday's Champions League match against Benfica with a knee injury and was unable to return.
UPDATE: Thursday, December 6 at 9:35 a.m. ET
Lionel Messi initially thought his career might be over when he suffered a knee injury yesterday, according to The Guardian.
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Lionel Messi says that his injured knee feels much better despite fearing the worst when he collided with the Benfica goalkeeper Artur duringBarcelona's 0-0 draw with the Portuguese side in the Champions League on Wednesday night...
The Barcelona forward says he could miss Sunday's league match at Real Betis, but had originally thought his career was in jeopardy.
'I sincerely thought it was the last ball I would be touching for a long time because of the pain,' Messi said. 'I tried to go ahead and shoot but I didn't have the strength.'
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 7:15 p.m. ET by Tim Keeney
It's official. Messi has just a bone bruise and has avoided any serious damage
While you obviously never want to see anyone get hurt, most fans would probably agree that Messi is the one player they don't want to have a break from watching. Not only is this a potentially crippling injury for Barcelona (although they are certainly the team that has the stars to pick up the slack in Messi's stead), but it's also potentially crippling for football itself.
The severity of the injury, which the Argentine suffered after coming on as a sub in the 58th minute, is still unknown, but according to Galarcep, it looked serious
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Based on the contact, & what he reached for, going to say Messi has a left MCL injury. Hopefully just a sprain. Would bet money on left MCL
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Still, it's important to note that is all speculation and we won't jump to any conclusions until an official word is given on how grim—if at all—the injury actually is.
Nevertheless, this is a hard one to swallow.
Many will jump to criticize Tito Vilanova for playing the star in what was a meaningless match for Barca, but when it comes down to it, these types of things can happen on any given day the men take the pitch.
There's simply no avoiding it.
With just 26 days left in December, Messi has currently scored 84 goals in the calender year, which puts him just one behind Gerd Muller, who set the record in 1972.
We'll be sure to keep you updated as more becomes known regarding this unfortunate injury.
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