At Borussia Dortmund, the list of troubled professionals is getting longer and longer.
With the Swiss Manuel Akanji, another regular is returning prematurely from his national team to the Bundesliga soccer team.
As the Swiss association announced on Sunday, the team started the journey to the World Cup qualifier in Lithuania on Tuesday without the 26-year-old central defender.
Dortmund - "The record of the medical staff of the A-national team is that the central defender will not be able to work due to problems in the left adductor area," the message said.
Akanji was substituted on Saturday in a duel with Northern Ireland after 53 minutes.
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BVB national players Thorgan Hazard, Thomas Meunier (both Belgium), Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal) and Youssoufa Moukoko (German U21s) had previously left their national teams.
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