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"Juventus" and Chilean national team defender Arturo Vidal will undergo knee surgery on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old footballer visited surgeon Ramon Cugat in Barcelona. He was accompanied by the doctor of "Juventus" and the Chilean national team. The surgery will be performed just five weeks before the World Cup, in which the Chilean national team will play in Group B against the teams of Spain, the Netherlands, and Australia. "The healing time is the most important and the most worrying issue. Unfortunately, in this case, the deadline is not so clear," said the Chilean national team doctor Giovanni Carcuro. "We cannot say that this player will not play in the World Cup. We don't have much time, but there is no clear deadline. This is an intermediate time needed for the player's treatment and rehabilitation process." Over the weekend, the team of "Juventus," who secured the Italian champions title, announced that A. Vidal will need arthroscopic surgery on his right knee meniscus. A. Vidal has been playing in Turin since 2011, when he arrived from the "Bayer Leverkusen" team. With the "Juventus" team, he won three Italian champion titles. The Chilean defender scored eight goals in 46 matches for the Chilean national team. Chile will start their appearance in the World Cup on June 13 with a match against Australia."
