Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas won’t play for Spain within the Girls’s European Championship after tearing a knee ligament in coaching on the eve of the event, the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) stated on Tuesday.
“The checks carried out on the Spanish worldwide … have confirmed that the captain of the Spanish Girls’s Nationwide Staff suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee,” the RFEF said in a statement.
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Putellas, who is ready for a prolonged spell on the sidelines, was on the coronary heart of the Barcelona girls’s workforce which gained the Spanish league and completed runners-up within the Champions League.
Named FIFA Finest Girls’s Participant earlier this 12 months, she was the highest scorer within the Champions League with 11 targets whereas additionally ending with 18 strikes within the Primera Division.
“Alexia Putellas suffered a sprain in her left knee throughout the coaching session of the Spanish girls’s nationwide workforce,” RFEF stated in a press release, earlier than medical checks decided the extent of the damage.
Spain, one of many favourites to win the Euros, start their group-stage marketing campaign towards Finland in Milton Keynes, England, on Friday.
Spanish media reported that Actual Sociedad ahead Amaiur Sarriegi will substitute Putellas in Spain’s squad for the Euros.