(Rome) The star of the France team Paul Pogba, uncertain for the World Cup-2022 after having knee surgery and immersed in a family legal case, assured Tuesday to keep “the head high” despite his injury and the “other problems “.
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“Know that mentally, it’s okay, despite all the worries, despite the injury and the other problems, we keep our heads up,” launched the “Pickaxe” in a video posted on Instagram the day after his right knee operation.
“The operation went very well. We are going to recover, we are going to come back very, very quickly, ”adds the midfielder of the Blues and Juventus Turin, whose unavailability is estimated at around two months according to the Italian press, which can in theory allow him to be included in extremis in the list of the France team for the World Cup (November 20-December 18).
Pogba, 29, has been out since late July with a “lateral meniscus injury” to his right knee. After refusing the operation in early August, he finally resolved to do so on Monday, two and a half months before the World Cup.
“We always smile”, assured the 2018 world champion again after thanking, in French and Italian, the supporters for their messages and their “support”.
Juve announced on Monday evening that their star signing of the summer, who returned to Turin after six years at Manchester United, had “undergone an external arthroscopic meniscectomy” which was “perfectly successful”.
He should not be able to play again with his club before the suspension of the Italian championship in mid-November due to the World Cup, his coach Massimiliano Allegri said on Monday.
The coach of the Blues Didier Deschamps will decide him at the beginning of November to complete his list of selected.
Pogba (91 caps, 11 goals) has not played for selection since a demonstration against South Africa (5-0) in a friendly match on March 29.
This new blow for Pogba, already disturbed by several injuries last season, comes as a family affair broke out ten days ago, against a backdrop of denunciations from the player of “extortion attempts” after a video of his older brother, Mathias, announcing “big revelations” about Paul. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation on Friday.