Chelsea’s Australian ahead Sam Kerr has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) harm on the facet’s warm-weather coaching camp in Morocco, the Women’s Super League membership mentioned on Sunday.
Kerr averaged almost 30 targets within the earlier three seasons for Chelsea, who’s high of the WSL desk with a three-point lead over Manchester City.
“Sam will be assessed by a specialist in the coming days and then begin her rehabilitation with the club’s medical team,” the membership mentioned in an announcement.
Kerr, who joined Chelsea in 2019, has scored 99 targets in 128 matches for the London facet, profitable the league 4 occasions, the FA Cup thrice and the League Cup twice.
She has additionally received the Golden Boot twice and was runner-up to Spain’s Aitana Bonmati on the Ballon d’Or awards final 12 months.
Kerr is among the sport’s hottest figures and was the primary feminine participant to function on the worldwide cowl of the FIFA online game in 2022 alongside Kylian Mbappe.
The 30-year-old joins a protracted listing of ladies’s gamers who’ve suffered ACL accidents, which normally take no less than 9 months of restoration earlier than a return to motion.
ACL accidents have been the speak of the ladies’s World Cup final 12 months after England’s Beth Mead and Leah Williamson, Vivianne Miedema of the Netherlands and Canada’s Janine Beckie missed the match.
Global soccer gamers union FIFPRO mentioned an elevated workload, journey and inadequate relaxation have contributed to a rise in accidents, together with torn ACLs, amongst girls’s skilled gamers.
In December, the European soccer governing physique UEFA launched a girls’s well being skilled panel to hunt a deeper understanding of ACL accidents and their incidence within the girls’s recreation.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com