{"id":164573,"date":"2025-09-23T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:08:07","slug":"barcelona-confirm-gavi-out-for-4-5-months-after-undergoing-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164573\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona confirm Gavi out for \u20184-5 months\u2019 after undergoing knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gavi has been forced to go under the knife again after picking up a problem which did not respond to conservative treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was reported previously that Gavi would just miss several weeks but Barcelona now say he won\u2019t be back in action until next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the club\u2019s official statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFirst team player Pablo P\u00e1ez Gavira \u2018Gavi\u2019 has had an arthroscopy to resolve a medial meniscus injury, which was sutured to preserve the meniscus. Recovery time is estimated at around 4-5 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A report from Mundo Deportivo states that Gavi\u2019s operation was supposed to be a \u201csimple procedure\u201d but doctors found the \u201carea was much more damaged than initially expected\u201d and so had to \u201crepair more than expected\u201d &#8211; which is why he\u2019s out for so long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The timescale is another huge blow for Gavi and Barcelona, particularly after he had worked so hard to return to full fitness after ACL surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gavi has looked in great shape in pre-season but now faces another frustrating spell on the sidelines. In a World Cup year there\u2019s also the fear that such a lengthy lay-off may also cost him his place in the Spain squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s hope that Gavi can recover fully and quickly and get back to doing what he does best soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavi has been forced to go under the knife again after picking up a problem which did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1208,1210,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-164573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}