The rosary of injuries of 456 days in 4 years of Vermaelen

As it informed the newspaper "Sport" at the beginning of the past month of August, one of the reasons by which perhaps the Arsenal have decided traspasar to Thomas Vermaelen, in addition to the fact that it finished agreement with the "gunners" in 2015 and that it did not wish to renew, is that the Belgian has gone through an authentic ordeal in the last years regarding the injuries of long length. In fact, the Catalan newspaper launches a data demoledor: it has been 456 days of drop in the last four years, some statistics that so only achieves to surpass in the FC Barcelona the Dutch Ibrahim Afellay, since Adriano Correia had more continuity that never the past season.

The aim of Thomas Vermaelen is to leave backwards the injuries in the FC Barcelona and try by all the means strengthen his physicist to lose the lower possible quantity of parties with the Barcelona T-shirt. The past course, however, was absent in 17 parties had to, first, to a fracture in the low part of the back that "Sport" ensures that it produced by stress of the player in the month of July of 2013. Already in January of 2014, suffered an injury of knee that kept him out of the terrains of game during two months.

In the season 2012-13, in any case, so only lost six parties, four of them by a sprain of ankle and two more by a feverish process. But in the previous courses the record of injuries continues being grave for the interests of the Barça. In the 2011-12, Vermaelen was operated of the sinew of Achilles and lost 11 meetings, whereas it suffered also a muscular distention that did him lose five appointments more. In the 2010-11, besides, remained 51 parties of drop by fault of the sinew of Achilles; in definite, almost all the season. We will see if the rosary of injuries brakes in his new stage like player of the FC Barcelona, but for the moment seems that the history continues. Still it has not debuted like Barcelona.