Ronald Araujo returns to the news Barcelona: the Uruguayan defender injured during a training session and this complicates the planning of the team led by Xavi.
Araujo, when healthy, is a solid one for Barça in defenseBe like right back or as a central defenderbut the blaugrana team has suffered continuous losses for most muscle injuries.
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What injury does Ronald Araujo have and how long will he be out?
Ronald Araujo was injured in the biceps femoris of the left leg in a training session
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Ronald Araujo suffered a biceps femoris injury in his left leg. It is low and its evolution will signal its availability pic.twitter.com/K1T8R4Sees
– FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) August 17, 2023
The current injury will leave Araujo out for about a month and so it will be missed at least three games for Barca (Cádiz, Villarreal and Osasuna for La Liga) and most likely also in Uruguay’s first matches in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiersagainst Chile and Ecuador.
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Ronald Araujo’s injury history
Ronald Araujo has suffered 13 injuries over the past four yearsvery high number for a 24-year-old footballer.
The most serious injury Araujo had was at the end of 2022, with a right adductor tear in Uruguay’s friendly with Iran that left him more than three months without playing (with the Qatar 2022 World Cup break in the middle) and just kept him out of the World Cup as he also sat out almost all of the 2022-2023 Champions League group stage matches that Barcelona failed to make it through. .
In the era 2019-2020, Araujo suffered an ankle injury in pre-season while still alternating between Barcelona B and the first team. Already in 2020-2021that interfered with the dynamics of the first team of Barcelona, Araujo was about few 80 days injured due to different muscle injuries and ankle injuries, so he barely played 24 matches that season in La Liga and three in the Champions League.
In the 2021-2022, Araujo injured his hamstring with Uruguay and was unable to play in the Copa America. Then in October he was sidelined for three weeks with a thigh injury and already in the first half of 2022 he missed a few more Barcelona games due to other minor injuries. In that campaign he played 30 matches in La Liga and 5 in the Champions League.
Already in 2022-2023after the injury at the end of 2022, Araujo suffered a left adductor femoris injury which prevented him from being with Uruguay at the FIFA date in March 2023. In May he was calf injury on right leg the one who did not allow the defender to play for Barca in the last four games of La Liga. Araujo played the entire season 22 matches in La Liga, one in the Champions League and two in the Europa League.
