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| Croatian national football team player Ana Maria Markovic, who has lived in Switzerland since the age of twelve and has played for Grasshoppers Club Zurich since 2020, seriously injured her left knee on March 3, 2023. Ten minutes after the half-time break in the top match of the Swiss championship against local rivals and reigning champions FC Zurich, the 23-year-old fell, twisted her knee and burst into tears. With the score at 0:2, the striker had to be substituted. Result: The game was lost 1:3. Ana Maria Markovic's cruciate ligament and meniscus were torn. She will be out for a year. |
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| A few days later, the 1.70-meter blonde, often called the "most beautiful female soccer player in the world," wrote from the university clinic in Zurich to her 2.8 million followers on Instagram: "I will have to say goodbye to football for a long time. It hurts so much and still can not believe it. All who know me, know that I have a very strong personality and that I will come back even stronger… Thank you all for the support, I will need it in the next few months even more." |
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| On 10 March, she was surgically operated on. A few days later, she was able to leave the hospital on crutches and with a thick splint on her leg. The following weekend, she watched her team match in the stadium with a narrower knee brace and crutches. Ana Maria Markovic calls her blue crutches, on which she is dependent, "new best friends". With her "companions" she also allowed herself time off from physiotherapy at Lake Como, in Hamburg and at the Champions League match in Milan. |
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