Daily News | USWNT star Mallory Swanson has a torn patella tendon and is likely out of the World Cup
turned out to be a torn patella tendon, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced Sunday.
Swanson took the impact of a challenge by Ireland’s Aoife Mannion on her left leg in the 40th minute of Saturday’s game, immediately went down shouting in pain, and was carted off. The gruesome video of Swanson on the ground showed an eerie dip under the skin of her knee where a normal patella should protrude slightly. She was taken to a local hospital in Austin, Texas, site of Saturday’s game, and was diagnosed there.
U.S. Soccer said Swanson returned to Chicago, where she lives and plays for the NWSL’s Red Stars, on Sunday. Though she has not been officially ruled out of this year’s World Cup, which starts July 20, the usual recovery time for torn patella tendons isSwanson was projected to be the starting left winger on the U.S. World Cup team. She had been in exceptional form in recent months, with
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