Official: James Rodriguez was torn and will be out for three weeks with Al Rayyan

On the afternoon of this Friday, April 22, the Al Rayyan club of Qatar, where the Colombian steering wheel James Rodríguez plays, reported that the cucuteño has an injury to his left leg, which would leave him without activity until the end of the season.

The Qatari team delved into the reasons that the Colombian has absent from the courts in recent days.

In an official statement on its website, the Colombian team explained that after the medical examination and magnetic resonance imaging of James Rodríguez, it was confirmed that he has an injury to the anterior muscle of the left leg (first degree tear), so he will be absent for approximately three weeks, thus missing what remains of the group stage of the AFC Champions League.

This was the confirmation of the injury of the 30-year-old North Santander by the Asian team that has hired him until June 30, 2024:

Al Rayyan was unable to have the playmaker for the group stage of the Asian Champions League. He is second in his zone with seven points in four games and this Saturday he will host colero FC Istiklol Dushanbe from Tajikistan.

On Wednesday, April 27, this phase of the continental tournament will end, so, if he does not advance to the round of 16, James could be left without playing for the remainder of the season and would end up seeing the World Cup in Doha as another spectator, given that Colombia has not confirmed friendlies or a new coach hired after the disengagement of Reinaldo Rueda by failing to achieve the international repechage of the Conmebol qualifiers.

Away from the courts since that penalty goal that turned Venezuela on March 29 for the last date of the South American qualifiers, Colombian footballer James Rodríguez has been unable to continue with his club, Al Rayyan of Qatar.

In the last days of Holy Week, the cucuteño was seen in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, where the 2022 AFC Champions League is being played. It was striking that the midfielder of the Tricolor returned from Venezuela to Qatar to be able to shoot in the continental Asian tournament, but he was unfortunate enough to suffer from a muscle injury that prevented him from participating in the first matches.

Despite the fact that on the social networks of his club he has been seen training regularly, his level is not for a start call in the continental tournament organized by the AFC.

For now we will have to wait how James's team is doing against FC Istiklol of Tajikistan and Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia on 23 and 27 April. His team is second in group A of the competition in which Al Rayyan scored 7 points in four matches played.

The leader of the table at the moment is Al-Hilal with 12 points and winning a single match would be unattainable by Al Rayyan in the round of 16 of the competition that grants a quota to the FIFA Club World Cup 2023. This is the struggle for leadership:

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