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3 unusual facts about cruciate ligament


Cristian Rolando Ledesma

Ledesma suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury at the start of the Apertura, delaying his first team debut and in January 2009 he returned to Olimpia.

Cruciate ligament

By the time in the Late Latin period when Latin medical terminology was being established, this old meaning of cruciare seems to have fallen out of use in common speech, and the word was re-invented with the meaning "arrange in cross shape".

Gabriel Perrone

He did not have great success as a player his career was ended by a Cruciate ligament injury after playing in the lower leagues with Atlanta and CD FAS of El Salvador.


Paul Lake

Installed as team captain at the centre of defence, a seemingly minor knee injury sustained near the start of the 1990/91 season following a challenge with Tony Cascarino was later diagnosed as a ruptured cruciate ligament, resulting in a two-year absence.


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Eoin Bradley

In July 2011 Bradley suffered a knee injury in training and may have suffered cruciate ligament damage that could rule him out for the rest of the season.

Roy McFarland

McFarland had been deemed responsible for putting Włodzimierz Lubański, Poland's best striker at the time, out of football for two years after an apparent poor tackle damaged Lubański's cruciate ligament during a World Cup qualifying match in October 1973.

Shane Stefanutto

He sustained a potentially season-ending knee injury in a match against Perth Glory after an innocuous challenge with Adriano Pellegrino, which was presumed to be a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.