Operations in the Back, Altintop Maybe Absent in Early Season

Posted on | Friday, June 24, 2011 | No Comments

Madrid - Hamit Altintop certainly absent in pre-season games and yet predicted to strengthen Real Madrid in their opening match some of the 2011/12 season. The reason is that back surgery that he would do next week.

Excerpted from the U.S., Altintop will increase the operating table on Monday (06/27/2011) local time. Surgery performed to restore a back injury he experienced.

28 years old midfielder had been feeling a problem on his back for a long time. And before the wheels start of the competition team physician Los Merengues decided to perform surgery on the new football player brought in from Bayern Munich.

The operation is expected to force Altintop sidelined several weeks. He was certainly not going to appear on some pre-season match Jose Mourinho's squad and probably will not play in the opening match of the Spanish League.

Altintop came to the Santiago Bernabeu for free after his contract runs out with Bayern at the end of the 2010/11 season. Four seasons of The Bavarian defend him perform in 63 matches and scored seven goals.