Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, currently at Celtic, revealed that he has suffered a serious shoulder injury that could keep him off the pitch for up to a year, putting his career continuity at risk. The news was shared by the 39-year-old player himself in an interview with his father, Peter Schmeichel, during the CBS Sports Golazo broadcast on Paramount. The Premier League champion with Leicester in 2016 explained the severity of the situation, which will require him to undergo two surgeries. "Yesterday I went to the specialist and, basically, now I will need two surgeries to treat my shoulder, which was quite a blow. It's a bicep tear, I tore my rotator cuff, dislocated my shoulder, tore my labrum — I tore everything," detailed the goalkeeper. "I could’ve potentially played my last football game." Our guest reporter Kasper Schmeichel reveals that he has dislocated his shoulder, and torn his bicep, rotator cuff and labrum. The Dane opens up about requiring two surgeries that will keep him out for 10 to 12 months. The injury, which kept him out of Denmark's match against North Macedonia in the European playoff, originated last year during the Danish national team's 5-2 defeat to Portugal in the Nations League quarter-finals. At that time, with all five substitutions already made, Schmeichel was forced to finish the match at a sacrifice. Despite trying to manage the injury with treatments and injections to continue playing, the pain persisted. The goalkeeper compared the complexity of his injury to that of a field player who tears "the anterior cruciate ligament and the Achilles tendon at the same time," estimating a rehabilitation period of 10 to 12 months. Host Kate Scott asked Kasper: "You’re smiling, but how do you really feel about this?" Kasper replied: "I was told yesterday. Honestly, right now I don’t know what to think, in the sense that you don’t know how to react to this. I could have potentially played my last game. I’ve been a player since the day I was born. That kind of thought is devastating. It’s very, very hard to process this right now," he stated. Kasper Schmeichel's last game for Celtic was in the 1-4 defeat against Stuttgart in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League playoff, a match in which he was booed by fans due to mistakes on some of the goals conceded. His absence allowed Finnish goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo to shine, keeping a clean sheet in the 1-0 victory in the second leg and being decisive in Celtic's qualification in the Scottish Cup, winning against Rangers in penalties. Schmeichel's absence also opens a spot in the Danish national team for the commitments in March. Mads Hermansen from West Ham and Filip Jorgensen from Chelsea are seen as the main candidates to take the starting position in the match against North Macedonia, scheduled for the 26th at Parken Stadium.
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