For the first time, perhaps in recent times, the National Camp has seen two players on rehab being summoned by the national coach to monitor and assess the recovery process which Robin Singh and Dhanpal Ganesh are presently undergoing. While Robin had injured his right knee during the SAFF Suzuki Cup in December 2015, Ganesh had also injured his right knee during India’s World Cup Qualifier against Iran in September 2015
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NEW DELHI
For the first time, perhaps in recent times, the National Camp has seen two players on rehab being summoned by the national coach to monitor and assess the recovery process which Robin Singh and Dhanpal Ganesh are presently undergoing.
While Robin had injured his right knee during the SAFF Suzuki Cup in December 2015, Ganesh had also injured his right knee ACL during India’s World Cup Qualifier against Iran in September 2015.
National coach Stephen Constantine specially summoned Ganesh to stay in the camp to get himself assessed, treated and advised by the medical staff of the national team as the player aims to get back to action in another three months.
However, with Robin being a local boy, he has been visiting the national camp regularly where he is also being assessed and advised by the medical staff.
Constantine said,"it's important to treat the players with respect.”
“It’s important for the players to understand that the AIFF will always support them. We are trying to aid the recovery process. Players who get injured are never to be thrown away as scrap and it’s important to handle them with care. I just wish a speedy recovery to Ganesh and Robin as well as Eugene (Eugenson Lyngdoh) and Anas,” he said.
The national team is currently in a preparatory camp in Delhi for India’s forthcoming back to back matches against Iran and Turkmenistan in the Russia 2018 World Cup Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2.
Robin stated that he is “hitting two birds with one arrow when he drops into the national camp.”
“I am on contract with Delhi Dynamos who have been paying my salary. The national team is my second family. I hit two birds with one arrow when I drop in at camp. Firstly, it’s an opportunity to meet all my friends, and secondly, it’s a chance to be with the medical staff of the national team,” he stated.
“The expenses of the surgery and post treatment which was borne by Delhi Dynamos have been a success and I am dying to get back on the field at the earliest,” Singh said.
Robin picked up Constantine to express his gratitude to him. “He has been a huge support and a pillar of strength to me. I am in constant touch with him. It feels bad to be missing Games but the injury will just motivate me to begin from where I had left,” he added.
Ganesh who was present in the same medical room admitted he “missed the SAFF Suzuki Cup like anything.”
“I wanted to be part of the squad. When I watch the pictures of the celebrations in the dressing room it feels bad that I couldn’t be there. But here I am in the camp again with all the boys. The coach has just been supporting me like anything,” he maintains.
