Fernando Cachopa’s absence from the courts will be far greater than imagined. in touch with the volleyball onlinethis Thursday (29/9), the athlete spoke about the left knee injury suffered last Sunday, during the pre-season in Monza, Italy, and revealed that the expected absence is five months.

– I went to two orthopaedists, one in Monza and the other in Milan, I had an MRI, an X-ray and the result was a grade 2 deformity in the posterior cruciate ligament. The good news is that I don’t need to operate, the recovery process is a bit smoother, faster. Now I’m going to put on a knee brace to secure the shin, the whole knee there, but I’m going to watch that for a few months. I will stay five, six weeks with this knee brace, and the return forecast is five months, more or less. I hope it’s a little sooner, but it’s going to be a long walk until I heal again. Now what I do is exercises for the quadriceps, I do ice cream, that’s all I can do at the moment – Cachopa told the volleyball online.

Cachopa’s injury happened in the second set of the match between Monza and Milan. He crashed his knee into the net post and had to be carried by his teammates out of the field. The setter was in a big phase, having won the title for the Brazilian team at the World Cup.

This week, Monza made the official presentation of the squad for the 2022/2023 season. Cachopa participated, on crutches. The Brazilian was one of the team’s main signings. The Croatian Petar Visic should win the title at this time. The squad also includes German opponent Georg Grozer, Canadian winger Stephen Maar, Italian central Gianluca Galassi, elected to the selection of the last world championship for national teams, among others.