{"id":36245,"date":"2024-11-14T02:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36245"},"modified":"2024-11-14T02:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:27:51","slug":"de-jong-i-thought-i-would-never-recover-from-my-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/de-jong-i-thought-i-would-never-recover-from-my-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jong: I Thought I Would Never Recover from My Ankle Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Frenkie de Jong, the Dutch national football team midfielder, doubted he would ever recover from his troublesome ankle injury, but he is happy to resume his international career after being absent from the national team for over a year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">De Jong is likely to get some playing time when the Netherlands hosts Hungary in the UEFA Nations League next Saturday in Amsterdam, in the penultimate group-stage match. He returned to Barcelona&#8217;s squad last month after nearly six months of absence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">De Jong told reporters on Wednesday: &#8220;Did I wonder if I would fully recover? The thought crossed my mind at times, but I was always confident that eventually, I would be able to play football again.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added: &#8220;There was doubt about how long I would be out and whether my ankle would return to its previous state.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 27-year-old player said the hardest part was missing this year&#8217;s European Championship in Germany, where his team reached the semifinals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said: &#8220;It was very tough. I watched all the team&#8217;s matches, but I didn&#8217;t watch many other games.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">De Jong last played for the national team in September 2023 against Ireland.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He was substituted in Barcelona&#8217;s loss to Real Sociedad last Sunday in La Liga after starting the match, but fears about his absence from the Dutch squad faded when he arrived at the training camp on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">De Jong said: &#8220;I received a blow to my calf muscle and then another blow, but it had nothing to do with my knee or ankle. I knew it wasn&#8217;t a serious injury, but it bothered me a lot.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenkie de Jong, the Dutch national football team midfielder, doubted he would ever recover from his troublesome ankle injury, but he is happy to resume his international career after being absent from the national team for over a year. De Jong is likely to get some playing time when the Netherlands hosts Hungary in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36246,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions\/36246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}