Zhou Peng missed the World Cup due to injury
The Chinese men's basketball team officially announced that Zhou Peng was injured in yesterday's training and suffered a fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone of his left foot, which missed the men's Basketball World Cup.
"During the training of the Chinese men's basketball team yesterday, Zhou Peng suddenly felt discomfort in his left foot and stopped training. After the hospital test, the fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone of the left foot was confirmed and cast immediately. In this way, Zhou Peng will not be able to compete in the 2019 men's Basketball World Cup. As for how long it will take to recover, further examination and treatment are needed. " The official wechat of the Chinese men's basketball team wrote.
As a veteran of the national team, Zhou Peng participated in the 2010 World Cup in Turkey and the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Games, especially made great contributions to the Chinese men's basketball team on the defensive side. This summer, Zhou Peng has been training with the Chinese men's basketball team. After Ding yanyuhang left the team due to a knee injury, Zhou Peng undertook more important tasks of attack and defense.
However, before the warm-up match with Brazil, CCTV revealed that Zhou Peng's right foot sprained during training and his ankle was swollen. Therefore, he missed two warm-up matches with Brazil. Later, according to Li Nan, Zhou Peng's ankle injury is gradually improving. Yi Jianlian also said that Zhou Peng's injury will not affect the game.
However, the old injury has just healed and added a new injury. Zhou Peng encountered a bone fracture in the fifth metatarsal of his left foot three days before the world cup, and will definitely miss the basketball world cup. 'Zhou Peng has trained hard and set an example since he entered the current Chinese men's basketball training team, and has played a very good exemplary and leading role in the team. He can't participate in this world cup, which is a great loss for the Chinese men's basketball team, but no matter what difficulties they encounter, the Chinese men's basketball team will actively face them, maintain confidence and welcome the arrival of the competition in the best state. We wish Zhou Peng a speedy recovery! " The Chinese basketball team affirmed Zhou Peng's leading role and called on the Chinese men's basketball team to maintain confidence and actively face difficulties.
This summer, the Chinese men's basketball team was plagued by injuries. Yi Jianlian missed a series of previous warm-up games because of the treatment of leg injuries. In addition to Ding yanyuhang and Zhou Peng missing the World Cup due to injuries, Zhou Qi also sprained his foot in the first game against Brazil, Guo Allen suffered a recurrence of his old injury in the second game against Brazil, and Wang Zhelin and Zhao Rui were also injured in the game.
It is worth mentioning that at present, there are 13 players in the Chinese men's basketball team. Now that Zhou Peng is injured, the list is automatically reduced to 12. These 12 people are Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, Zhao Rui, Fang Shuo, Guo Allen, sun Minghui, Zhao Jiwei, abudu Salamu, Zhai Xiaochuan, Ren Junfei, Kelan Baike and Wang Zhelin.