Atalanta, Scalvini undergoes shoulder surgery: return not before three months

Second injury in a few months for the unfortunate defender. Scamacca will also undergo surgery today

di FABRIZIO CARCANO
6 February 2025
Giorgio Scalvini leaves the field after breaking his cruciate ligament

Giorgio Scalvini leaves the field after breaking his cruciate ligament

Bergamo, 6 February 2025 – From today for George Scalvini begins a new long re-education. Exactly eight months after the previous one, recently concluded, on the knee. On June 3, 2024 the reconstruction surgery of the cruciate ligament shattered the previous day in recovery against Fiorentina, preceding six months of long rehabilitation work.

Giorgio Scalvini on the ground during the Champions League match against Barcelona
Giorgio Scalvini on the ground during the Champions League match against Barcelona

Yesterday for the twenty year old from Palazzolo another surgery, the second in six months, at the Humanitas clinic in Rozzano, performed by Professor Castagna, perfectly successful, glenohumeral stabilization of the left shoulder with modified Latarjet technique.

With a view to a three-month rehabilitation program. Calendar in hand Scalvini could still return for a few games in May. Difficult, but not impossible. Today he should also go under the knife Gianluca scamacca, to intervene on a lesion of the musculotendinous junction of the rectus femoris.

Gianluca Scamacca in the match against Torino in which he was injured again
Gianluca Scamacca in the match against Torino in which he was injured again

"He and Scamacca will come back stronger than before, we are waiting for them even if we know that we will have them back only next year. We are very sorry for them. For us it has been a great disappointment for a long time, two guys who would have given us a great hand and who did not deserve these two episodes", explained the Nerazzurri CEO, Luca Percassi, on Tuesday evening.  

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