2023-08-12 01:25:06
After a good number of full stops, Jokin Altuna puts a full stop to skip a paragraph in the story he is writing this summer. The pain caused by blows to his left shoulder in each of his last three games forced him to give up this afternoon at Sunbilla.
The man from Amezketa injured his shoulder last Sunday in the semifinal of the La Blanca Tournament when he hit the left wall of the Ogueta fronton. The scan he underwent the next day, Monday, ruled out a bone or ligament injury. However, Altuna III lacked the rest period that is normally enough to eliminate discomfort.
He decided to play the final in Vitoria on Tuesday, where when defending a ball in the txoko he hit the wall with his shoulder again. “I have felt pain in the same spot,” he confessed. He entered the locker room at 16-17 to receive medical attention. he continued.
Forty-eight hours later, on Thursday, he participated in Víctor’s farewell party in Ezcaray. As usual in cases of this nature, Murphy’s Law made an appearance: “Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Around the 18th goal of the star, in an action similar to the previous two by Gasteiz, a new bump on the shoulder. At the end of the match, he informed the company that he needed more than two days to recover, insufficient time to take the field today in Sunbilla.
The pelotari himself will assess the state of his left shoulder in the next few hours before deciding if he is ready for the next commitments on his schedule. Two await him just around the corner: Monday night in Mallabia and Tuesday afternoon in Azkoitia, at the close of the third day of the CaixaBank Masters. Although the pelotari asks for caution, in the direction of Aspe they are optimistic.
It is not the first time that the left shoulder separates Jokin Altuna from the programming. Last summer, on July 29, he collided with the underplate of the Sahatsaga de Getaria pediment, which lacked a mattress at the time, and suffered “a contusion in the proximal insertion of the deltoid muscle.” Absent nine days, he missed the festival of San Ignacio in Azpeitia and that of Bera. He reappeared on August 7 in Ogueta. In principle, the current ailment has nothing to do with that one.
The summer of 2022 was loaded with physical incidents for the Amezketarra, who on August 21 in Zarautz was the victim of a mild acute fiber tear in the biceps femoris of the right thigh. He stopped for a month until his return on September 19.
The triple blow to the shoulder seems like a slight setback for Altuna III after accumulating eleven games in 21 days between July 21 and August 10. He has played practically every 48 hours and his longest rest period in this period has been since he played on the night of Monday, July 31 at Izarraitz until he tied his gerriko again on the afternoon of Thursday, August 4 in Bera.
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