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Man United’s Dalot visits ‘Miracle Doctor’ in China
SHANGHAI, Sept 9, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Injured Manchester United defender Diogo
Dalot has been having treatment at Chinese club Shanghai SIPG under a
Brazilian physio known as the “Miracle Doctor”.
The 20-year-old Portuguese right-back is yet to feature this season and
manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said last month that he was out until after the
current international break.
What Solskjaer did not say is that Dalot, a $25 million capture in June
2018 from Porto, was suffering with a hip problem and had gone to see
Shanghai’s physio Eduardo Santos.
Dalot landed in Shanghai on August 29 and spent 10 days with the Chinese
champions, the club said, publishing a photo of the defender at their
training ground.
Dalot, who could be moved to a more advanced role on United’s right after
the signing of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, may now be in contention for a Premier
League start this month.
Then-United manager Jose Mourinho called Dalot the best young full-back in
Europe after signing him last summer.
Santos was dubbed “Miracle Doctor” by French media in 2015 after getting
defender David Luiz — then at Paris Saint-Germain — fit in just a few days
after a serious hamstring tear.
Luiz had contacted his fellow Brazilian, then employed by Zenit St.
Petersburg, and flew off to Russia for treatment.
French international Eliaquim Mangala, former Tottenham midfielder Mousa
Dembele and Colombian striker Radamel Falcao have all sought Santos’s help in
recent years.
There have been murmurs from experts querying how he can get players back
into action so quickly, but Santos told AFP in an interview last year: “What
we do is not a miracle.
“I do science, and of course the results that I have are really, really
good.”
BSS/AFP/MSY/1148 hrs