{"id":20206,"date":"2025-09-23T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=20206"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:04:11","slug":"gavi-to-undergo-knee-operation-on-meniscus-injury-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=20206","title":{"rendered":"Gavi to undergo knee operation on meniscus injury: Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Barcelona midfielder Gavi is to undergo surgery on his injured meniscus after other treatment failed to resolve his problem, the Catalan giants said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old midfielder has not played since late August due to the problem and the club said he would undergo an arthroscopy on the knee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same knee in which he suffered a torn cruciate ligament and another meniscus injury in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Having first received a &#8220;conservation course of treatment&#8221; in a bid to fix the problem, Gavi was put through &#8220;intense sports stress tests&#8221; on Sunday, the La Liga champions said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to guarantee the best possible recovery and return to competitive action, this Tuesday Gavi will undergo an arthroscopic examination,&#8221; Barca said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>His previous surgery on the knee in November 2023 kept Gavi out of action for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Barca made no mention of how long it would be before Gavi plays again.<\/p>\n<p>But the club also confirmed that Fermin Lopez, who played for half an hour in Sunday&#8217;s 3-0 victory over Getafe, had suffered a muscular injury in his hip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be out of action for around three weeks,&#8221; Barca said.<\/p>\n<p>Gavi and Lopez join the likes of forward Lamine Yamal, full-back Alejandro Balde and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen on the treatment table.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona midfielder Gavi is to undergo surgery on his injured meniscus after other treatment failed to resolve his problem, the Catalan giants said on Monday. The 21-year-old midfielder has not played since late August due to the problem and the club said he would undergo an arthroscopy on the knee on Tuesday. It is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}