Andoni Iraola reveals new Giovanni Leoni return date following “careful" rehabilitation

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It had previously been reported that Leoni would return to full training during the elongated international break that has just concluded, but that did not turn out to be the case. With Leo, the plan was to train in the international break, but it will be the next one, so we have lost one month of progress.

So the plan now is he starts in the next break. Later than we expected."Andoni Iraola on Giovanni LeoniIraola, pretty honestly, confirmed that the initial plans was indeed for Leoni to ramp up training while the majority of the squad were away on international duty.

The Basque head coach, and his medical department, are right to be, to use his word, "careful" with Leoni's recovery. He disclosed that it was not just an ACL rupture, which is gruesome enough in itself, with Iraola describing it as a "bad injury [in] a lot of areas around the knee".