On Froko’s side, Panathinaikos offers him a new contract

This time it is not exaggerated to show the extent of the seriousness of the matter. “These things don’t happen” is to be taken literally and as a phrase horribly “hurt” after a Panathinaikos player’s third ACL tear in just 10 days!

According to Alexi Trouillet and Aitor Candalapiedra, the craziest “crack” an athlete can hear also “marked” his left knee. Leandro Frokouin the 69th minute of the game on Wednesday (October 26) against Trencin for the 2nd round of the youth league.

MRI confirmed the leg injury suffered by the 19-year-old midfielder, who this season – his first so intense at a professional level – comes to an ignominious end and begins his own struggle.

No, that “really doesn’t work”. It should never have happened in the history of the world that a team loses three of its players with a cruciate ligament tear within ten days. Even AEK, which suffered from certain injuries in 2017-2020, counted six such injuries among its players over a three-year period.

But in ten days, no, that’s unprecedented…

The new injury of a very talented boy who had entered the team’s rotation with his sword since the beginning of this season was (still) a “shock” for the Panathinaikos organization. Whereby the players cannot believe the guinea and the “black cloud” that has settled over Koropi and will not go away.

But it goes without saying that teams and their dressing rooms “harden” even more in such conditions. And you could see that in the reaction of the team in the last few days.

For their part, Panathinaikos management intends to do exactly what it will do in the case of Aitor. When Frokou has calmed down a bit with what’s to come and the operation he will have to have in the next few days to repair the damage to the cruciate ligament, he will be asked to extend his contract for another two or three years.

Not because of the fact that his current contract, which he signed in October 2021, expires next summer, but because the ‘little one’ had won all those competitions before he got injured. But also because the “Greens” as a club and as an organization want to show that they are at his side in this very difficult phase of his career.

And they will expect him to come back to the field strong and chase his dream once again!