Xuan Son's wife received bad news on the way to bring her husband back to Vietnam, the doctor announced 1 thing

After excellently winning 3-2 on Thailand's field in the second leg final on the evening of January 5 to overcome the opponent with a total score of 5-3 through two rounds, the Vietnamese team left for home after winning the 2024 ASEAN Cup.

Striker Nguyen Xuan Son was transported by ambulance from Bangkok Hospital to the airport. He fractured his fibula and tibia after attempting to pass the ball and make a pass to his teammates in the first half of the second leg of the final.

The male player's wife was on duty, bringing her husband back to the country. Many fans came to encourage and visit when Son was lying on a stretcher. Vietnam's naturalized striker happily responded, constantly saying "I'm fine, I'm fine".

Xuan Son was then transferred to a wheelchair, meeting with coach Kim Sang-sik and his teammates in a separate area. Here, Coach Kim awarded the gold medal to the 27-year-old striker. During the coronation ceremony on the Rajamangala field yesterday, Son was not present because he had to be hospitalized in an emergency. He missed the opportunity to lift the Cup with his teammates and received the title of Top Scorer, Best Player of the tournament.

Defender Ho Tan Tai also had to use a wheelchair when going to the airport to return home. He suffered a cruciate ligament in front of his right knee in the second leg of the semi-final against Singapore on December 29.

With the above injury, Nguyen Xuan Son and some teammates will temporarily not attend the celebration of the 2024 ASEAN Cup championship in Vietnam in the next few days.

Initially, there were 2 options in treating Xuan Son's injury. Option 1 is for him to stay in Thailand for treatment, option 2 is to bring this player home. Recently, the Vietnamese national team decided to bring Xuan Son back to the country for surgery for a copper pipe fracture.

Doctor of sports medicine Nguyen Ngoc Anh Tuan, a graduate of Beijing Sports University (China), said that the legs are the limbs that have to carry the weight of the whole body. So in principle, when a bone is broken, it will have to wait for the bone to heal before being able to walk, in normal people.

As for football players, having a physical condition will be better than normal people such as: bone density, calcium is good, so the recovery time will be shorter. However, with the injury that player Nguyen Xuan Son has just encountered, he will take time and need a professional team after surgery to rehabilitate.

"The nature of a fracture will be milder than a ligament rupture, with Nguyen Xuan Son's condition, I think the recovery process is less than 1 year. Looking at the X-ray, the fracture is not very deviated, the bone needs 3-4 months to heal, after training to recover, the rest depends on the physical condition, the fastest 7-8 months to be able to compete again," said Mr. Anh Tuan.

Sharing about this issue, Dr. Nguyen Duong Nhat Thi, Musculoskeletal Specialist - Orthopedic Surgeon at a large hospital, said that the time to recover from the injury of player Nguyen Xuan Son will also take at least 6 months or more to be able to kick back to the blockage.

"However, players can only play 60%, and it is impossible to compete at the top for less than 1 year," Dr. Thi said and said that for sports such as football at high speed, the degree of twisting of the players is very large. The most common injury is ligament rupture, and fractures are less common. Fracture injuries to players will often be serious because they will be related to bone grafting problems.

According to experts, in the case of player Nguyen Xuan Son, if there are no other injuries such as knee ligaments, the patient can still rotate, move and reflex well. However, if there is damage such as a rupture, the ability to recover will be poorer. In addition, external factors such as infections, accidents or subjectivity during convalescence and physical therapy can affect the recovery results. Depending on the location of the fracture of the lower leg bone, the prognosis for recovery will vary.

Xuan Son's wife was "harmed" in Thailand, her husband had an accident, had to celebrate in the hospital JLO07:24:53 06/01/2025After winning 2-1 in the first leg at Viet Tri Stadium, Vietnam defeated Thailand 3-2 in the second leg right at the Rajamangala fire pan, to win the 2024 ASEAN Cup with a 5-3 overall victory.