You'll laugh at this - Rojo got injured on the very first practice
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Reading Time: 2min | Fri. 05.02.21. | 15:06
Former Manchester United's defender Marcos Rojo felt a pain in the leg on the first training with his new team Boca Juniors
The Argentine defender Marcos Rojo is not enjoying his first days back at Boca Juniors after leaving Manchester United. To say the least. After playing his last official match for the Red Devils as recently as November 2019, the 30-year-old decided to return to his Boca in order to restore his career. But it went wrong from the very start. A
According to Daily Mail and the Argentine media, he got injured on his debut training season in Buenos Aires "due to long inactivity on the pitch". It has been reported that Rojo might have been shocked by the intensity of the session given his long spell on the sidelines in recent times. Boca have since put Rojo - who is believed to have sustained a calf injury, according to local reports - on a lighter programme and he returned to the training pitch on Thursday. It is expected that the 30-year-old will be able to increase the intensity once again in a few days so that he can train properly under Boca manager Miguel Angel Russo and his new team-mates.
Speaking after the injury, Rojo told Ole:
"I was training on my own, but it's not the same. Miguel told me that he had a plan for me to get quick to compete for a place. It was good from the physical, but the first days it cost me a lot.'
It has been a horrid time of late for Rojo given his lack of playing time but he will be desperate to put his injury ordeals behind him as quickly as possible. The Argentine defender made a total of 122 appearances for United after signing from Sporting Lisbon in 2014 for £16 million. Rojo won the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League at United, although he was injured in the run to the final of the latter in Stockholm in May 2017.
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