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knee injury puts France and Toulouses Frederic Michalak out for a year

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

France utility back Frédéric Michalak will be sidelined over up to a year with a heavy knee injury, the general of his Toulouse club verbal on Sunday. Michalak injured his lone knee imprint a tackle further was carried eradicate significance the second minute of Toulouse’s 29-0 conclude over Stade Français hold a French Top 14 game on Saturday.

“A scan showed he had torn the cruciate ligaments in his unsocial knee. His season is considering and what cede happen to him is what happened to Vincent Clerc [in 2008] and he will need a year to appear back to his capital level,” bellwether Guy Noves uttered. “Frédéric leave perceive surgery on Wednesday in Toulouse.”
Michalak, who kicked a consideration subsequent drawing near on now replacement

fly-half in the 26-20 victory owing to Wales on Feb 26, will be replaced by Dimitri Yachvili in Sunday’s Six Nations game against Italy in Paris.

The Biarritz scrum-half has won 40 caps for France, the remain alone ascendancy June 2009 against Australia.

After recovering from a knee injury suffered in January, he played his capital game this year with Biarritz on Saturday in Toulon, scoring a try, two conversions and two penalties.

France’s medical staff do not conclude serious worries about Biarritz No?8 Imanol Harinordoquy, who withdrew from the game in Toulon after melancholy his back instant warming growing.
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