{"id":38812,"date":"2025-09-23T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/barcelonas-gavi-out-for-5-months-after-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:07:15","slug":"barcelonas-gavi-out-for-5-months-after-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/barcelonas-gavi-out-for-5-months-after-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s Gavi: Out for 5 months after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"Barcelona midfielder Gavi will miss up to five months of competition after undergoing surgery to treat a meniscus injury in his right knee, LaLiga club said on Tuesday.\n\nGavi, who returned from an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the same knee last season, hasn&#8217;t played since August.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>First team player Pablo P\u00e1ez Gavira &#8216;Gavi&#8217; has undergone arthroscopy to resolve an injury to the medial meniscus, which was sutured to preserve the meniscus. The recovery time is estimated at about 4-5 months.<\/p><cite>Barcelona<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0923%2Fr1549983_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Gavi se perder\u00e1 varios meses por lesi\u00f3n.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Gavi se perder\u00e1 varios meses por lesi\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nInitially, Barcelona hoped to avoid surgery, but this was not possible.\n\nThe player had already been out for 11 months after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament while playing with Spain in November 2023.\n\nBarcelona will face Real Oviedo on Thursday before hosting Real Sociedad on Sunday.\n\nThe new timeline suggests that Gavi will not return until the last months of the Barcelona season and before the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona midfielder Gavi will miss up to five months of competition after undergoing surgery to treat a meniscus injury in his right knee, LaLiga club said on Tuesday. Gavi, who returned from an anterior cruciate ligament injury in the same knee last season, hasn&#8217;t played since August. First team player Pablo P\u00e1ez Gavira &#8216;Gavi&#8217; has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,6682,290,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-38812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-gavi","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-knee"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}