{"id":574,"date":"2025-06-17T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:29:27","slug":"gerard-martin-set-for-pre-season-return-after-successful-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/gerard-martin-set-for-pre-season-return-after-successful-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Martin set for pre-season return after successful surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-26.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-26-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-26-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona confirmed on Tuesday that Gerard Martin has undergone successful surgery on a dislocated base of the fifth metacarpal in his right hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spanish full-back was forced to withdraw from the Under-21 European Championship due to the injury, but is expected to be available for the start of pre-season with Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;First-team player Gerard Martin has undergone a successful surgery on a dislocation of the base of the fifth metacarpal in his right hand. The procedure was performed by Dr Mir under the supervision of the club&#8217;s medical services,&#8221; the club announced in an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin sustained the injury during the first half of Spain&#8217;s match against Slovakia in the Under-21 Euros. Despite managing to reach the interval, he was substituted at half-time after being unable to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, the defender will miss the remainder of the tournament, but is set to return in time for the beginning of the team&#8217;s pre-season preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona confirmed on Tuesday that Gerard Martin has undergone successful surgery on a dislocated base of the fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}