A new chapter in Maribor’s miserable start: Ishaq Rafiu suffered an injury at the beginning of the winter preparations
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Ishaq Rafiu is in
Maribor
arrived in Maribor with high expectations of the club’s management to find a footballer in Nigeria who will bring the fans to their feet in the Ljudski vrt. And who knows, maybe one day it will be so. But for now, the whole story is mostly very bleak.The 22-year-old Ishaq Rafiu has played only three games since signing for the Violets last September. He didn’t even spend 90 minutes on the pitch. Hits? Nothing. He is best remembered for the eternal Ljubljana derby , when he clumsily and unluckily outplayed himself.
The start of the year offered the perfect opportunity for a fresh start for the footballer who won the Nigerian title with Rivers United last year ( 14 goals). But it increasingly seems that a new chapter in this sorry tale has already begun to be written. Ishaq Rafiu is already injured, according to reports from Maribor.
“Ishaq Rafiu is currently on the injured list, but he is suffering from a pain in his hamstring muscle and it will be known how serious the injury is after an examination,” the purple team wrote on club website. If the problems are only minor and do not take up too much of the player’s training time, then Ishaq Rafiu will be able to breathe a sigh of relief. If this is not the case and he spends a long time on the sidelines, then… In that case, the sporting director will also Marko Shuler probably slowly began to wonder whether he might have missed the boat entirely with his purchase in Nigeria.
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