U.S. women's national team star Christen Press has revealed that she will undergo a fourth surgery in 13 months since tearing her ACL last June.
WHAT HAPPENED? Press suffered the injury while playing for Angel City in a match against Racing Louisville over a year ago and took to social media on Monday to share the news that she would need a fourth surgery as she continues her road back to action in a very open statement.
WHAT THEY SAID: «I've had three knee surgeries on my road to recovery,» Press wrote on Instagram. «Each time, I've waited until I thought I was at the last phase of return to share the news about what I'd gone through. I'd share a video of me running happily, or even shooting very happily. I thought then that it was a lookback moment, reflecting on the bottom as I neared the top of my climb… But each time, I learned later that I was really at the bottom of a bigger, scarier, higher mountain: another surgery.
»Some call these setbacks. But I don't like that language because it implies there is another path that I should have been on. And those are expectations I do not accept. I am here again, with recent news I need a fourth surgery. This time, I want to share how I'm doing from the bottom.
«This month commences the World Cup. The USWNT's first game will be exactly 13 months from my ACL repair to the day. Until the roster was announced, there wasn't a day that passed over the last year that I didn't believe I could be there. Even after three surgeries. Back in February, when my surgeon and physical therapist told me directly, as medical advice, to let go of that dream, I cried. I nodded. And I thought I processed that loss.
»But, I also decided not to speak that truth into existence. I felt that if I shared
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