Football: Season over for injury-plagued Pato

ROME: AC Milan’s Brazilian striker Pato will be out of action for the rest of the season, revealed club doctor Jean-Pierre Meerssman. The 22-year-old has suffered 14 injuries in the past two years, principally thigh muscle problems, but also to his ankles and groin, restricting him to just 11 league games this season, in which he has scored once. “Ten days, or 20 or 30 does little to change where we are now,” Meerssman told Gazzetta dello sport. “And when he has recovered we’ll be back to square one again.” Pato picked up the latest injury in Wednesday’s 3-1 Champions League quarter-final, second leg loss in Barcelona, leaving the pitch 14 minutes after coming on.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 6^th, 2012.