Controversy on Rossi's surgeon

By Football Italia staff

Giuseppe Rossi could reportedly be out for over six months and NBA star Danilo Gallinari criticised his surgeon.

Fiorentina announced Rossi had surgery on his knee last night and will be sidelined for four to five months, but La Nazione newspaper claims it will take six months before he’s running again.

This is Rossi’s fourth knee operation and specialist Professor J Richard Steadman is now coming under scrutiny.

Italian basketball star Gallinari told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he has serious doubts over whether Rossi should go to a different surgeon.

“If I could turn back time, I would not have gone to Steadman. I will write a book on that year and a half in my life with many incidents I haven’t revealed yet,” said the Denver Nuggets player.

“It’s best I don’t talk now, as otherwise I could get too fired up. I’ll only say that a month after my operation, Steadman declared he would never have operated again.

“I made the wrong choice, but he was considered one of the best and his clinic was an hour’s drive from Denver.

“Now I see the Giuseppe Rossi case, plus Westbrook, Vonn and who knows how many other non-famous athletes who paid for trusting in him.”

Gallinari injured his anterior cruciate ligament in April 2013 and missed the entire 2013-14 season too.

Professor Steadman announced he was retiring from his surgical practice in January 2014, but still runs the same clinic that Rossi visited in Vail, Colorado.

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