The national team break couldn’t have started worse for Juventus. The ‘FIFA virus’ has attacked the Turin team with all its cruelty even before the international matches scheduled for the coming days.
The bad news for Thiago Motta, Juventus coach, arrive from the Colombian national team concentration since the center back Juan Cabal He was injured during training and is already flying back to Turin to be examined by the ‘bianconero’ club doctors.
Serious knee injury
However, according to the first tests carried out by the Colombian team’s medical staff, Cabal suffers a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee. Unless the severity of his injury is confirmed when he returns to Turin, the defender would miss the rest of the season.
A loss that leaves the Juventus rearguard even more decimated after another of their centre-backs, the Brazilian Gleison Bremer, He also said goodbye to the season after suffering a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the Champions League match against Leipzig at the beginning of October.
Bremer’s relief
Precisely Thiago Motta had found in Thorough, He joined Verona at the age of 23 in the summer as a left back, the solution to cover the loss of Bremer placing it in the axis of the rear.
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Juventus is sixth in Serie A, two points behind the leader Naples, while in the Champions League they have 7 points in 4 games.