It is the next setback for midfielder Sami Khedira, and a shock for the club and Fans: The 31-Year-old had to undergo surgery because of heart problems. So he’s out for at least four weeks.
Sami Khedira is since 2015, the Italian record Champions Juventus
“Fear for Khedira” was the headline in the Italian newspaper “Tuttosport”, “shock to Juventus”, the “Gazzetta dello Sport”. The reason is that the midfielder had to undergo surgery because of heart problems. At the conclusion of training on Tuesday for the Champions League game at Atletico Madrid, he had participated, he then informed due to strong heart lawn immediately to the Doctors of his club Juventus Turin. The ban, an immediate Sports. The Diagnosis Of Heart Rhythm Disorders. That’s why the 31-Year-old from falls not only to the eighth-final first leg against Atletico on Wednesday evening, but for a further four weeks.
Unpleasant, but not life-threatening
Khedira had to undergo an intense medical check, followed by surgery. It was made a “desolation of the heart cells in the atrium,” said his Club Juventus Turin. Such interventions are usually made, if in the region of the heart rhythm disorders of the auricles is always re-emerge, said the Berlin cardiologist Dietrich Andresen, the German press Agency. Such rhythm disturbances were not life-threatening, but could result in exposure to a very unpleasant heart palpitations.
In the treatment will first introduced a probe through a vein to the heart, and the heart palpitations artificially triggered, said Andresen. So, we can determine which cells are for the rhythm disturbance is responsible. This will then be made with heat or cold is harmless. The procedure had been successfully carried out, informed the club after the Operation. The German national team, sent via Twitter wishes for a speedy recovery.
It is another setback for Khedira in the first half of the season he was out for 15 games of Juventus. First of them was plagued by a thigh injury, then an ankle injury put him out of action. Concerns about Khedira have also fueled the speculation about how his role at Juventus will look in the future. Although the contract of the previous stuttgar ester was extended until September 2021, including the Option of a further year, but the crowds in Central midfield is getting bigger and bigger. In the summer, the Welshman Aaron Ramsey of Arsenal FC.
For the time being, not a Comeback in the DFB?
Also, with a view to its use in the German national team, the Operation for Khedira comes at an inopportune time: he Actually wanted to recommend in this season for a Comeback in the DFB-selection, after it had not used Federal coach Joachim Löw after the botched world Cup in Russia.
Ten days ago, Khedira for his first goal was celebrated for half a year, when 3:0 Juventus Turin against Sassuolo Calcio. “The Professor is back. He unleashed the game,” wrote then in the newspaper “La Stampa”. However, the return must now wait, probably.
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