At the Penzo, in the first leg, the Genoa midfielder had broken his ankle. Then the operation, the rehabilitation and the return 149 days later
The news is of the beautiful, positive ones, which pleases everyone. Because the injury that Ruslan Malinovskyi had suffered in Venice in the first leg of 21 September last frightened: second time just started, the Ukrainian tries to recover the ball in the Genoa area but supports the ankle that immediately gives the feeling of breaking . At the Penzo, although the challenge of salvation is very important, an impressive silence falls. Everyone immediately realizes the gravity of the situation: the Venice fans are silent worried, those of Genoa make the same, the medical staff fly to the field and Gallini – at the time still goalkeeper of Genoa, before the Exploit of Leali right in That race and the sale to Rome – puts the gloves on Ruslan’s eyes. No, better not to see his ankle so badly. Malinovskyi screams of pain, observes, cries. He is taken away on a stretcher. The game resumes after a few minutes but all the Genoa is quite shaken and then we will see on the field. The diagnosis? Fracture of perone and joint dislocation. Recovery times at least 6 months.
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The fear, the discomfort, the anguish, perhaps even the desire to give up everything after such a great fright, could have taken over. Because the images of that injury really worries. Instead Malinosvkyi immediately went to work, already the day after the crash: with Genoa he chose to be operated by Professor Federico Santolini, director of the orthopedics and traumatology department at the San Martino hospital in Genoa, who in fact has it put back on foot. And the recovery times have been record mainly thanks to the determination and desire of the Ukrainian midfielder: every day he worked overcoming pain and effort with the only goal of returning to the field as quickly as possible. The rest did the fate, allowing Malinosvkyi to find Venice just 149 days after that injury that could have shown him in advance his player’s career.
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