Basketball: injury to the meniscus, Gallinari jumps to the European Championships

Danilo Gallinari misses the European basketball championships (1-18 September). The Fip makes it known with a statement in which it specifies that, after the clinical investigations to which the blue number 8, injured yesterday against Georgia, was subjected at the Columbus Clinic Center in Milan, “the clinical picture will not allow the athlete to be available to CT Gianmarco Pozzecco for the upcoming EuroBasket 2022 “.
In Gallinari, who was accompanied by the head of the medical staff of the national team Raffaele Cortina, “a meniscal lesion without ligament involvement” was found.

‘I WANTED TO GIVE THE ITALIANS MAGICAL NIGHTS IN MY HOUSE’
“It hurts tremendously. Not so much the knee that yesterday gave way in a race won by character. For that it will take some time – fortunately less than expected – to get back to how it was before. It is damn bad to give up this blue dream. We wanted to give ourselves some nights. magic. In my house. In our house “. With this post on Instagram Danilo Gallinari vents all his disappointment at not being able to play the Europeans with the national team, after yesterday’s injury against Georgia. And the regret is exacerbated by the fact that one of the venues, the one in which Italy will play, is the Assago Forum. “Today unfortunately it was a bad awakening – continues the ‘Gallo’ -. At the clinic in Milan where I was accompanied by Prof. Cortina and all the blue medical staff, the sites of the clinical tests arrived: injury to the meniscus. #Eurobasket “. “Precisely in a summer that seemed perfect – the blue n.8 regrets -. We must accept destiny and look ahead. I will be alongside this group in every race, to give thousands of Italians joy this summer as well. Our path continues, regardless of everything. Come on Azzurri … “. (

Source: Ansa

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