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DFB captain Alexandra Popp: "Sometimes joy and sorrow are very close together."
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DFB captain Alexandra Popp has to cope with another setback shortly after her comeback.
The VfL Wolfsburg footballer underwent another operation on her right knee on Thursday.
Coach Tommy Stroot put the downtime at “four to six weeks”.
“You could say the message gave me a short stride, but it goes on,” wrote Popp on Instagram from the hospital.
"I survived the surgery very well and now I hope and pray that this plague will come to an end."
First assignment after a nine-month break
It was only on Sunday that the 30-year-old made her first appearance in a friendly against league rivals Eintracht Frankfurt (1-2) after an almost nine-month break due to a cartilage injury.
After the game, "there was a reaction in Popp's knees that none of us expected," said Stroot.
Popp wrote: »Sometimes joy and sorrow lie very close together.«
The VfL trainer said: "We know that she will come back in four to six weeks".
He was happy to then "have her with us again in the important English weeks", the decision to have the surgery now "made consciously".
In the case of Popp, "pain symptoms appeared in the affected knee.
As part of an MRI examination, a loose cartilage fragment was diagnosed, which has to be surgically removed," said a club statement.
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