{"id":20264,"date":"2025-09-25T22:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/barcelona-gavi-out-for-up-to-five-months-after-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:40:46","slug":"barcelona-gavi-out-for-up-to-five-months-after-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/barcelona-gavi-out-for-up-to-five-months-after-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: Gavi out for up to five months after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Barcelona midfielder Gavi could miss the next five months after having knee surgery. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old featured in Barcelona&#8217;s opening two matches of the season before injuring his right knee during a training session in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were fears the Spain international had suffered a recurrence of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear he sustained in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although scan results revealed Gavi had avoided an ACL tear, he has had an operation to repair damaged cartilage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Gavi has had an arthroscopy to resolve a medial meniscus injury, which was sutured to preserve the meniscus,&#8221; a Barcelona statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Recovery time is estimated at around four to five months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce9r1nr0vkno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona midfielder Gavi could miss the next five months after having knee surgery. The 21-year-old featured in Barcelona&#8217;s opening two matches of the season before injuring his right knee during a training session in August. There were fears the Spain international had suffered a recurrence of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear he sustained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20264\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}