Llamosa's ACL surgery is successful Revs defender has surgery on Friday at Mass General Boston, Mass. - Revolution defender Carlos Llamosa underwent successful reconstructive surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Friday, May 28, 2004, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Team physician, orthopedic surgeon Bertram Zarins, M.D. performed the procedure. Llamosa injured the knee in a preseason match versus the PDL New Orleans Shell Shockers and is expected to take 6-8 months to recover. The New England Revolution (1-4-3) will take on the Kansas City Wizards (3-3-2) tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, on Wednesday, June 2nd at Arrowhead Stadium. Also tonight, at Gillette Stadium the U.S. National Team will take on Honduras at 7:30 p.m. The Honduras match will be USA's final preparation before they begin the Road to Germany 2006 on June 13, in Columbus, Ohio, where the U.S. will take on Grenada in the first of a two-game CONCACAF World Cup qualifying series. For ticket information call 1-800-GET-REVS.
Well since 6 months pushes his recovery out until the beginning of December, I would assume the Revs would at least get roster relief. It may not matter anyway since the team is so hard up against the cap that they probably can't fit anyone decent anyway (and there's no one healthy to trade). Danizinho maybe you can finally settle this one... Was there ever really a "Hernandez allocation" (which, theoretically, could be used for cap space), or was that just an ill-founded, oft-repeated rumor?
I wonder if anyone has every had "unsuccessful" surgery? At least not at the conclusion of the procedure. It may turn out that way later. Either way, I wish carlos the best and hope to see him back next season.
Yes, the Revs did receive an allocation for Daniel Hernandez (that type of signing by another club is covered by a caveat in MLS rules). However, they haven't used it yet. In part perhaps because of budgetary issues (methinks). FWIW, how a club uses their allocation(s) is determined in large part by a system that's maintained by the league (they have to be used in order, etc). Hernandez, FWIW, is doing quite well with Necaxa, and he's got a possible opportunity to play for Mexico's national team (let Danny see The Baby Jesus irrigate the pitch south o' the border...that would be a bigger mismatch than Antonio Tarver and Roy Jones, Jr). As for "unsuccessful" surgeries, they do happen. Don't tell Teddy Chronopoulos, he of multiple knee surgeries, they don't. You ever notice how many pro athletes now avoid using their club's designated physician/ortho and instead going to their own doc(s) of choice?
I know that not all surgeries work. I have had 8 on my knees myself. I was trying to point out that every surgery is announced as "successful" even though not all of htem turn out to be.
Yup. Marty Barrett says hello. And let me say this... I don't blame Byung-Hyun Kim one bit for going back to South Korea for medical treatment. At this point, I don't think I'd even let a Red Sox doctor take my temperature. And don't the Revs really have two allocations? Unless they've already used one of them for "cap relief" without telling anyone - including the players. Man, those might be useful if we weren't already using two Senior International slots on backup central defenders.
I'm going out of limb and saying probably because they were looking for the best option for the club and Llamosa. Would it be easy to let it heal and have him back for the end of the season and risk him gettin injured again or should they do the surgery and have him back healthy and ready to go for the next season? Since they took the second option, I'm assuming they have Llamosa in their plans for the future. Then again I could be wrong.
I suppose no one will know if it was "successful" until he attempts to play again. I'm a big Llamosa fan, but given his age and the fact that he was already slowing down, I don't think it's by any means a guarantee that he's going to play again for the Revs or any other professional team. I hope he does make it back but if I were the Revs I would plan as if he's not going to return.
The other question is, has llamosa played his last game as a Rev? At his age, lack of pace high salary and coming off this injury I would think SN would make other plans going into next season. I heard a comment a couple of years ago when he was with DCU that he may be a bit older than documented which only pushes him closed to the end of the road. That (age) may be crap but experience can only keep a guy in the league so long.
I'm pretty sure I heard Nicol say that he used one for cap relief - but he didn't specify if it was the big one or the little one.
As for when to have the surgery, I believe that the player has some significant say in whether or when to have surgery - it is his body after all. Perhaps it came down to seeing how he felt after enough rest to recover from the trauma and trying to see if he could play with a brace (wasn't it Serna who was discovered to have been playing for some time with a severely torn ligament?). As for his future here, I really don't think speed is much of an issue. Slow players don't usually slow down as much as quick players from age. Llamosa's been getting by without speed for his whole career. If he didn't have significant cartilege damage, he can likely return to full function with ACL replacement. And his salary is no longer large, he fits more in the upper-mid-level now. But, in MLS, guys in that range may be in the biggest jeopardy...
Re: 6/2 - Llamosa's ACL Surgery A Success - Out 6 - 8 Months Things that make you say hmmmmmmm... http://www.boston.com/sports/soccer/articles/2004/06/03/noonan_does_the_trick_for_revolution/ ". . . Carlos Llamosa had his left anterior cruciate ligament repaired last Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital and will be sidelined another 6-8 weeks."
No, not a dumb question at all. He had the proceedure nearly two and a half months after the injury. It should have been known sooner than this that rest and/or rehab would not get the problem solved. They also may have known that there was no way that he was going to be able to play this season so they took the most conservative approach. I thought Llamosa was pretty much running on fumes before this injury. At his age, where his play was was headed, and with this injury, I'll be surprised to ever see Llamosa playing again for the Revos. He was a smart player and a good pickup, but the end was near even before surgery.
Re: 6/2 - Llamosa's ACL Surgery A Success - Out 6 - 8 Months So which is it? I had a partial tear and they waited almost 3 months for surgery because they wanted to see if rehab helped. If it's partial, we may well see him back this year. If it's a reconstruction we may not see him in a Revs uniform again. Could we please have some clarification from one of our reporters? If the Revs are being evasive with this, the question is why? If they're not, then there's some lousy sports journalism going on here because no one is getting all the facts. Or maybe I haven't been reading the right publications......
Re: 6/2 - Llamosa's ACL Surgery A Success - Out 6 - 8 Months Both the Globe and the Herald reported the 6-8 weeks. Soccer America reported 6-8 months. Somebody is making the wrong assumption. One big factor in the recovery time would be if they were able to repair it arthroscopically. If not, forget about 6-8 weeks. As for the Revs being evasive, of course they are. I think their attitude is that even if disclosing something may not be disadvantagous, better to be on the safe side and not say anything at all. Nicol must've picked up that philosophy from either Liverpool or Bill Belichick. OTOH, disclosing more than the league requires them to COULD disadvantage them in trade talks, if any were going on - as teams would see them as more desperate.