Ukraine’s 35-year-old national football team captain Anatoliy Tymoshchuk will miss the Sept. 8 European football championship 2016 qualifying match with Slovakia due to injury.
He had damaged his long abductor muscle on the left
thigh in the Sept. 3 friendly match with Moldova. In a Football Federation of
Ukraine news release,
team doctor Serhiy Derepovsky said that it will take Tymoshchuk 4-5 weeks to
fully recover.
After being diagnosed by local doctors, he was sent to
a clinic in Munich where he was examined by Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt, a
world leader in the treatment of sport injuries who services the Bayern Munich
club. He had also treated Tymoshchuk when he played for the German club in
2009-2013. Mueller-Wohlfahrt subsequently confirmed the diagnosis.
As a midfielder for Saint Petersburg’s Zenit club in
Russia, Ukraine’s record holder of 133 caps is the only national team member to
play abroad.
Kyiv Post editor Mark
Rachkevych can be reached at [email protected].
