After a busy summer with the U.S. Men’s National Team, John Brooks was due for some time off. However, after suffering an injury in the Copa America, Brooks has returned to his club early to undergo further assessment.
Originally scheduled for a three-week break, Brooks instead returned to Hertha Berlin to undergo treatment for knee inflammation that kept him out of the Copa America third-place game. The club fears that the injury issues could be enough to keep Brooks out of the team’s Europa League qualifying, which is set to begin on July 28.
“We don’t know how severe his injury is,”Hertha sporting director Michael Preetz told BZ. “He will now return to Berlin and will be examined by our team doctor.
“We hope that his injury is not severe. Especially because he should go on holiday now and does not want rehabilitation training. A bigger injury would be very unfortunate.”
The latest injury issue is far from the first time Brooks has returned to his club with an ailment. The defender was also unfit upon his return from last year’s Gold Cup, as well as March’s World Cup qualifiers.
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I’d be very interested in Brooks’ injury history before he began playing for Klinsmann. I don’t recall Altidore having any hamstring problems before Klinsmann took over.
Joe you are starting to seem a little obsesseds. You know before JK took over I don’t remember hoverboards bursting into flames. Coincidence how can we tell?
You’re interested in an 18 year old, who is still in academy, injury history?
See my reference to Altidore. We all know Klinsmann’s intense training demands.
They need a formal assessment to pass onto any potential suitors, if you are asking 20 million transfer fee people need some assurances of his condition. Obviously, any new team would give him a medical, but to keep people interested they need to know.
“He should go on holiday now”…wait, weren’t they originally pissed that JB planned a three-week vacation post-CA?
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the injuries to FJ and JB were total BS and just a way for Klinsmann to keep their club teams happy and keep our two top prospects out of what really was at that point a pretty meaningless game.
This statement by the club seems kind of panicky anyway. They even say they don’t know how bad it is but they need to get him back there fast to check it out. Clearly they rate JB pretty highly as we all do and he means a lot to their upcoming season or we would be seeing such panicky statements without first knowing the severity of any supposed injury.
World football is such a trip. The cross-cultural personalities and ways of doing/addressing things from League to League; nation to nation. This is one thing the NFL will never have over soccer.
Yeah, HB’s “real” worried about it. So worried about it, they said he’s gotta be seen by his team’s Dr. and seen right away (6 timezones away) … I guess because we don’t have world-renowned Orthopedic Dr.’s with the latest MRI-type equipment here, or the ability to transmit the data to his team’s Dr.’s immediately.
FWIW he looked ok on the sidelines in the colombia match. didnt look like he was limping or hobbled.
I’m surprised the official team statement didn’t include a comment that they didn’t want him to play in Copa America in the first place…
That was the first thing I looked for in the statement. Surprised it was absent, but give it time…