INZAGHI
WILL PLAY IN A MONTH!
The
quick recovery could speed up the return from the middle of March to 28 February
[translated by MANUELA]
MILANO.
It seems doctors have had to stop him: don’t exaggerate, otherwise you risk.
If it depended only on him - on his desire, his enthusiasm, also his physical
sensations – Filippo Inzaghi would have come to Milan’s aid in little time.
Too short time for a person who broke his knee in the afternoon of 2 December
and was operated 3 days after: he used the crutches till the beginning of
January and it’s only 2 weeks he walks normally. It has been told him: till
now your convalescence has gone very well and there aren’t signs that problems
can arrive, but it’s better not to take advantage of this favourable
situation. But all red&black circle has accepted (really gladly…) the
little miracle Filippo Inzaghi is doing: in the moment of the operation it was
announced his return on the field would have been, at best, at the middle of
March; now it’s conviction of everyone that the forward can play on 28
February, in the match against Roda. Last sign arrived with the contact with the
ball, yesterday afternoon in Milanello: a further step forward, waiting that –
in 4 days – he comes to run again.
"The
aim is to have him again on 28 February": everybody says and repeats this thing
in Milan, where Filippo Inzaghi’s injury is considered fundamental to explain
red&black break down "Because he is not only a player who scores, but also a
man who carries his team-mates." In fact, the trend of the team, since the
forward’s injury, has had a fall: it’s surely excessive to think that all of
almost all depends on the absence of an only player, but it’s also evident
that the match won against Chievo – in which there was the crash between the
forward and Cristiano Lupatelli – represents the watershed of Milan season.
After it the team, that was fighting for scudetto (it was 4th,at 3
points from Inter), has progressively slumped. It succeeded in
winning again a
match 20 days after the victory against Chievo but then it has fallen at 11
points from Roma, first in the placings. "Obviously it’s not only fault of
Inzaghi’s injury, but it has counted very much", it’s said in Milan, where
the forward’s absence is considered maybe more serious than the absence of
Paolo Maldini and Rui Costa.
"It’s
better not to make announcements or proclamations, but around me there’s trust
and I have it too: I should have to come back at the middle of March, instead I
could bring my return forward,"
the hope given by Filippo Inzaghi to the whole Milan, with words checked by
understandable caution. If he said what he feels in his heart, Milan forward
would say he feels well, very well, comforted by concrete and irrefutable facts:
his left knee has had no complications, no pain, no relapse, an besides muscular
tone has been recovered quickly thanks to the hard work of physiotherapy and
swimming pool to whom he has undergone in January. Encouraging signs: if it
doesn’t emerge problems even forcing, it becomes inevitable to be optimistic.
So it starts, ahead of time, last phase of recovery: the most intense, the most
long-awaited. Started yesterday with the contact with the ball. Saturday or
Sunday morning, while his Milan will be anxious about the match against Lazio,
Filippo Inzaghi will be visited by Andrea Campi, doctor of Lazio, who operated
him on 6 December. If in the consultation with his red&black colleague
Rodolfo Tavana it won’t be noticed problems – and in this moment it can’t
understood what problem could be found – the forward will start to run already
on Monday. That moment will be important, because there will be further
confirmations about the complete recovery of the efficiency of his injured knee.
And it will start the countdown to follow the new plan of recovery, that
doesn’t plan his return at the middle of March but at the end of February.
There’s already who imagines him brilliant and lively in short time,
remembering how he is quick in finding the best form at the beginning of the
season thanks to his agile muscle structure.
"In fact it often happens to me to begin well the season,"
Filippo Inzaghi admits, another breath of trust for Milan fans. And the effects
of the hard trainings he is going to face up could last till World Cup, since 31
May in Japan and Korea. When some champions – not only Italians – could be
tired at the end of the season, Filippo Inzaghi should be in the best form. "But
first of all I think about Milan: I would like to give an important help in the
end of the season. Obviously I care very much about World Cup, but I will start
thinking about it when the matches with Milan will be finished." So
appointment at 28 February, Milan-Roda. Filippo Inzaghi will still miss few
matches: 4 of championship (but not challenges with the strongest team, except
Lazio), the second semi-final of Italy Cup against Juventus (next Wednesday) and
the first match of Uefa Cup in Holland. Then, crossing fingers…
