August 7th, 2008 06:17am
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Arsene Wenger has declared himself pleased with the speed Tomas Rosicky and Eduardo are recovering from injury.
Rosicky has been out with a thigh problem since January, while Eduardo is rehabilitating after a horrible incident at Birmingham in February.
The fractured leg and ankle dislocation he suffered at St Andrew’s left many wondering if he would ever play again.
Arsenal manager Wenger believes Rosicky could play as early as September, with Eduardo returning two months later.
Both players were at the Emirates Stadium for a fans’ day and Wenger said he was happy with their progress.
“The situation is positive for both players,” said the Frenchman.
“It was good for them to be back in this kind of atmosphere. The players enjoy a day like that.”
Source - BBC Sport
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August 3rd, 2008 07:25pm
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Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva is hopeful he can return to action before the end of the year.
The Croatian is continuing his recovery from the horrific broken leg he sustained in a horror tackle with Birmingham defender Martin Taylor in February.
Eduardo has returned to England to continue his rehab after four months in Brazil and the player is happy with how his recovery is going.
“It is good [his recovery] because I was in Brazil for rehabilitation for four months, I worked hard every day doing two sessions for six or seven hours every day,” Eduardo told Sky Sports News.
“I think for me it was very hard, but now I forget everything that happened.
“I came here to finish my rehabilitation.
“It was very difficult, very hard for me as Arsenal were playing very well [at the time of the injury], scoring a lot of goals and doing good in the table.
“For me it was very hard as I like playing and this injury means five, six, seven, eight months not playing and that is very hard for any player.”
Eduardo is set to be assessed by Arsenal’s club doctor on Monday and the striker is hoping he can make his long-awaited return to action by Christmas.
“He is going to check my leg tomorrow, but about playing I don’t know. Before Christmas, maybe,” concluded Eduardo.
Source - SkySports
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July 27th, 2008 10:21pm
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Eduardo Da Silva will be returning to England to watch his Arsenal team-mates play at the Emirates cup on the 2nd of August 2008.
For the last few months Eduardo Da Silva has been undertaking his rehabilitation in Brazil, his place of birth.
Although it is not certain when Eduardo will once again be fully fit, as some reports had earlier suggested that Eduardo would return to match fitness come August, but in the last week or so news has emerged of a possible 2 month delay.
Upon returning to England, Eduardo will be assessed by the Arsenal medical team, after which he will begin his final stage of rehabilitation. More news will be available then.
If things go as planned, Eduardo will once again be gracing us in the Number 9 jersey.
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July 23rd, 2008 03:10am
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Eduardo could be ruled out of the first two months of Arsenal’s season after reportedly encountering a problem in his recovery and rehabilitation from the career-threatening leg injury he sustained at Birmingham in February.
The Brazil-born striker had been making good progress from the traumatic double break, and had even hoped to be able to take part in Arsenal’s pre-season programme.
However, reports now claim that the 25-year-old will not be ready to return to full training until October.
Arsenal have not moved to sign a new striker since Eduardo’s injury, and with Emmanuel Adebayor’s future still uncertain, they could be short of fire-power up front early on.
Eduardo had targeted playing again in August, so manager Arsene Wenger‘s talks with Adebayor about a new pay deal this week may have taken on new significance.
If the Togo striker does leave, Wenger would have Robin Van Persie, Theo Walcott, Nicklas Bendtner and Carlos Vela to choose from. However, neither Walcott nor Van Persie is an out-and-out centre-forward, while Vela has yet to make his Arsenal first-team debut.
Source - Goal.com
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July 12th, 2008 06:38pm
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Eduardo da Silva could make a miraculous return to training as early as the pre-season after making excellent progress in his recovery from a career-threatening injury.
Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva could make a miraculous return to training as early as the pre-season after making excellent progress in his recovery from a career-threatening injury.
The 25-year-old suffered a double fracture in his left fibula and a dislocated ankle following a challenge from Birmingham captain Martin Taylor in February.
Arsenal physiotherapist Gary Lewin said:
Hopefully, he will be back doing training during pre-season.
We’re setting no timescales. We don’t want to put him under any pressure.
Lewin, who is to leave the Gunners to take up a role as head of physiotherapy with the England senior team next month, added: “We are confident Eduardo will make a full recovery.
Source - Soccer365
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March 31st, 2008 06:52pm
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Arsenal’s striker, Eduardo da Silva, will removed his plaster after five weeks. His injury at the moment seems to be quickly recovering.
The Croatian and Arsenal’s football player, Eduardo da Silva, removed his plaster five weeks after the operation. The first information say that the injury is quickly recoverion and in two weeks he should fly to Rio de Janeiro and start rehabilitation.
There was a small risk that the wound would get infected, but fortunately it did not happened and Dudu, in a good mood, should continue his rehab in Brazil in a centre with Brazilian star Ronaldo. There he should get ready to start with his career again in November this year.
Dudu expressed the wish to play for the Croatian national team during the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland, but the question is whether Arsenal’s trainer, Arsene Wenger, will allow him or not. Croatian coach Slavne Bilic more than once stated that the whole team wished to fight for the Euro along with Eduardo, who was one of the key players that made Croatia reach the championship’s final.
Source - Javno Sports
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March 11th, 2008 09:12pm
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Stricken Arsenal striker Eduardo last night blasted claims that Birmingham defender Martin Taylor visited him in hospital.
A newspaper last week claimed Taylor had personally made his peace with the Croatia international after committing the horrific tackle that left him with a double fracture of the leg and a dislocated ankle during Arsenal’s trip to St Andrew’s two weeks ago.
The report also carried quotes attributed to Eduardo. But the striker told Croatian TV:
“The story about Taylor visiting me was an invention - as was my ‘interview’ in the English press.”
The Eduardo-Taylor incident is becoming a major embarrassment for both clubs.
Arsenal have been admant about giving their injured striker space and time to recover.
Birmingham have stood by Taylor who has won widespread support as a player who would not have intentionally injured an opponent.
However, FIFA president Sepp Blatter revisited the row on his visit to Scotland this weekend with a personal attack on Taylor. Blatter has claimed players who seriously injure opponents should face life bans.
Source - The Sunday Mirror
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March 2nd, 2008 07:49am
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Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva has expressed his gratitude to physio Gary Lewin for saving his foot.
Eduardo suffered a broken leg and dislocated ankle after Birmingham defender Martin Taylor caught the Croatian forward with a mistimed challenge in the 2-2 draw with the Blues at St Andrews last weekend.
Taylor was shown a straight red card for the foul and has been heavily criticised for the challenge which has left Eduardo facing nine months on the sidelines.
Eduardo, though, admits his injury could have been far worse and the 25-year-old has thanked Gunners physio Lewin for his swift action.
Grateful
“The injury was so grave I could have lost my foot,” he told the News of the World.
“So I will always be grateful to Gary for what he did in lowering the risk to my leg. That was decisive. I do not remember too much about the blow.
“I remember the pain, seeing that my foot had rotated, but I only recaptured my senses in hospital.”
Eduardo, though, accepts Taylor’s challenge did not contain any intent after the Birmingham player visited him in hospital.
Excuses
“I had to look at him (Taylor),” Eduardo continued. “I could not understand how anyone could make a tackle like that in only the third minute of a game.
“But in the end I believed that Taylor was sincere and I accepted his excuses.
“Even though he had destroyed my season it would be incredible to think that what he did was pre-meditated.”
And Eduardo insists he will never watch a replay of the challenge because he wishes to put the incident behind him.
“I’m not interested,” Eduardo added. “I’ve made this decision along with my wife. I want to try and forget what happened.”
Source - SkySports
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February 29th, 2008 07:26pm
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Martin Taylor insisted last night that he had not meant any harm with the tackle that left Eduardo da Silva contemplating ninemonths out of the game and said that nothing would give him more pleasure than to see him back scoring goals for Arsenal.
Taylor, the Birmingham City defender, who was sent off after his challenge left the Croatia striker facing a long recuperation from surgery to a double compound fracture of his left fibula and dislocated ankle, also revealed his fears as he went to visit Eduardo in Selly Oak Hospital.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the incident at St Andrew’s last Saturday, the former England Under-21 centre half said:
“I will be really happy on the day when I see he is back in the Arsenal and Croatia line-up and when he is scoring goals again.
“The injury was terrible enough. When he gets back to fitness and he puts the ball in the net for Arsenal for the first time, we will all feel much better. People will be able to see that accidents like these are the nature of football and you can recover from it.
“I went to see him on Saturday but, unfortunately, he was still recovering from an operation, so first thing on Sunday morning I went to the hospital and he was really good to see me.”
Taylor, who was described by Alex McLeish, the Birmingham manager, as being “mentally shattered” in the aftermath of the incident, admitted that because of the horrific nature of Eduardo’s injuries, he was worried how the striker would react to his visit.
There were initial fears that Eduardo would not play again and he is out of the European Championship finals this summer. “I was mindful of this and I thought maybe he wouldn’t want to see me, which would have been fair enough because of the trauma,” Taylor, 28, said.
“Although there was a language barrier, I just said that I didn’t mean him any harm at all and that I hoped he made a quick recovery. He took it on board and nodded. I was just really glad we could communicate. He is obviously a really strong man. Since then, I have read in the papers that he would be happy for me to visit him. That’s something I’d like to do.”
As Eduardo begins his recuperation — he will have his stitches removed next week and his leg will be put in plaster for at least another six weeks — one player who can empathise with his ordeal spoke yesterday of the challenges he faces.
Nearly three years to the day before Eduardo suffered his injury, Alan Hutton lay in a crumpled heap with a broken leg on the pitch at Ibrox. It was two seasons before his poise returned and he was able to maraud forward from right back with explosive results, securing a move from Rangers to Tottenham Hotspur last month.
Within months of making his debut for the Glasgow club at 18, Hutton had emerged as a fearless full back. But after making 24 appearances over little more than two seasons, he broke a leg in a wild challenge on Garry Hay, the Kilmarnock defender.
Memories came flooding back after last weekend’s incident. “I couldn’t even watch it, I was cringeing,” Hutton said. “I remembered my leg just hanging somewhere it shouldn’t have been. It was a real hard thing to take. In the ambulance, I asked, ‘How long will it take me to get back?’ My mum and dad tried not to show me the papers but I wanted to see.
“I questioned if I was going to come back. I sat in the house constantly bored. I’m sure those days were very tough for my partner. People don’t realise how serious the break was. It was tough to get back and when I did it wasn’t feeling right.”
Source - TimesOnline
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February 28th, 2008 08:52am
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Arsenal striker Eduardo Da Silva has been discharged from hospital four days after undergoing surgery as result of the horrific injury suffered on Saturday’s match against Birmingham.
Eduardo who suffered a fractured left fibula and an open dislocation of his left ankle after a tackle by Birmingham’s Martin Taylor, will have his leg in a plaster for six to eight weks before his rehabilitation program starts.
Arsenal are hopeful that Eduardo should be running again in 6months, and close to match-fit 3months later.
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