{"id":9035,"date":"2026-11-04T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/chukwueze-undergoes-successful-surgery-on-hip-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:30:58","slug":"chukwueze-undergoes-successful-surgery-on-hip-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/chukwueze-undergoes-successful-surgery-on-hip-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukwueze Undergoes Successful Surgery On Hip Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Samuel Chukwueze has successfully undergone surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his left hip, AC Milan have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Serie A club announced on Wednesday that the operation took place in London and was performed by Professor Ernest Schilders, with Dr Stefano Mazzoni in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAC Milan confirms that Samuel Chukwueze has undergone surgery in London to repair a ruptured tendon of the tensor fasciae latae muscle in his left hip,\u201d reads a statement on the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmilan.com\">club\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation, performed by Professor Ernest Schilders with Dr Stefano Mazzoni in attendance, was successful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/chukwueze-faces-two-month-layoff-with-hip-injury\/\">Chukwueze Faces Two-Month Layoff With Hip Injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChukwueze will return to Italy today, where he will begin his rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old winger is expected to remain sidelined until the end of the year, ruling him out of Nigeria\u2019s upcoming 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Tanzania\u2019s Taifa Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze sustained the injury during preparations for AC Milan\u2019s UEFA Europa League encounter against Bournemouth last month.<\/p>\n<p>The former Villarreal winger had made an encouraging start to the season following his return from a loan spell at Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>He has recorded two assists in eight  appearances across all competitions for the Rossoneri this season.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu<br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Samuel Chukwueze has successfully undergone surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his left hip, AC Milan have confirmed. The Serie A club announced on Wednesday that the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}