Accra Hearts of Oak defender Isaac Oduro has been ruled out for 10 weeks after picking up a leg injury in the club’s MTN FA Cup match with Samartex FC last Saturday.
The defender sustained a fracture of the leg injury in the fourth minute of the club’s 2-4 penalty loss defeat to the Division One outfit in their round of 32 tie.
Oduro was playing his second game of the season after he had recovered from an ankle injury that kept him out of most of their pre-season campaign.
Club physiotherapist Okyere Baffour Agyei has confirmed that the player had an injury in the early stages of the game and was quickly rushed him to the Samreboi Hospital for observation.
He said he took an X-ray and it was realized that there was a fracture to the fibula – the distal one-third – so they gave him medication and took him to the theatre to put his leg in a cast.
The player has returned to Accra and will see an orthopedic specialist who will give further details on the length of the injury.
However, Baffour Agyei said, “We know for a normal bone fracture injury, it takes six weeks to come out of the cast and also depending on how the healing goes, the rehabilitation too will take a number of weeks; so normally, and at best, by the 10th week, if everything goes according to plan, he should return to training – so that is what we are looking at, at the moment.”
Hearts Defender Ruled Out For 10 Weeks
