The Spanish defender Sergio Ramos, one of the star signings of Paris SG for the new season, will not play the Champions Trophy (the French Super Cup) on Sunday due to a calf injury, his club announced on Tuesday.
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The Andalusian center-back is “in a progressive recovery phase after an injury to the soleus of the left calf in which he suffered a contracture in training last weekend”, and his “return to training is scheduled for next week.” explained the club of the French capital in a statement.
The PSG, champion of the French Cup, the champion of the League 1, the Lille, on Sunday in the traditional Champions Trophy, in Tel Aviv (Israel).
The former captain of the Real Madrid arrived on July 8 at PSG, after having terminated your contract in Spain. At 35, the quadruple champion of the Champions signed for two seasons.
For the same reason, he is not called up for this Tuesday’s friendly against him. Sevilla FC, like Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, Marco Verratti or Angel Di Maria, who are still on vacation or have just returned to training.
Ramos lived one last season in the white club weighed down by physical problems, missing no less than 30 games with his team and accumulating about 150 days off.
Ramos only played two league games in 2021 with a meniscus injury in January, after which he suffered a muscle injury to his left leg once he returned to competition in mid-March.
The Andalusian did not play again until the end of the season and was not called up for the Euro-2020. Sergio Ramos, who holds the record for matches with the ‘Roja’ (180), thus missed his first international competition since 2005.
The defender could also miss the first day of Ligue 1, with the displacement of the PSG to the court of the newly promoted Troyes on Saturday August 7. So I could debut a week later in the Princes Park before him Strasbourg.