National team doctor says Manchester City haven’t been helping with injury reports

Here we go again, covering another controversy involving Claudio Bravo and the Chilean national team.

In the past few days, we’ve already covered claims from the Chilean media which said the Manchester City player should apologise before returning to La Roja, as well as a pundit claiming he would create problems in the squad in case of a comeback.

Now according to the national team staff, it’s the Premier League side who haven’t been helping Bravo’s return to play for Chile.

Team doctor Fernando Radice been interviewed by Radio Agricultura on Tuesday, and when speaking of Bravo, he says his staff hasn’t been able to know the player’s recovery, since Manchester City won’t give them the reports.

“We have not had contact with Claudio,” Fernando Radice told Radio Agricultura. “I know that he has been evolving very well and that he is training specifically, but the official reports, that we have asked Manchester City for as the medical team of the national team, have not had the answer nor the flow of before. We are with parallel but unofficial information.”

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“One thing is to train and another is to have match rhythm. Clinically speaking, he should not have problems getting to the Copa America. The issue is whether the football and technical point of view are in the same response conditions that a goalkeeper at a level of such importance requires.”

Bravo’s recovery, of course, has been a subject of controversy as well. It’s been claimed that the player didn’t get the same treatment as other teammates, as the national team didn’t even contact him since his injury, while they did get in touch with other stars such as Arturo Vidal and Alexis Sanchez.

A continuing drama.