Unbelievable! 38-year-old Haddadi ruptured Achilles tendon 7 months later: returns to the Iranian men's basketball team for warm-up games
Beijing time on August 17, according to domestic media revelations, the Iranian men's basketball team is about to go to China to participate in the warm-up game, composed of 13 people The latest Iranian men's basketball team list is released, led by 38-year-old veteran Haddadi, the warm-up game is played in Jinjiang, Fujian, and the Chinese men's basketball team opponent South Sudan will also participate.
For the lack of enough excellent talent reserves for the Iranian men's basketball team, the sixth window period is vividly reflected, but no one expected that Haddadi, who had only 7 months of Achilles tendon rupture, returned to the Iranian men's basketball team and entered the 13-man roster, which is very unbelievable. You know, strong as Durant and others, it also takes more than a year of recovery, among which, compared to the domestic Yi Jianlian is a full season off, and Marchand Brooks is a similar situation, Haddadi in July not only returned to the level of return to training, now into the 13-man roster, does it mean that his physical condition meets the standard of returning to the field?
The 38-year-old Haddadi's appearance of the Iranian men's basketball team may also mean that he is about to enter the end of the national team, this Iranian men's basketball team with the aging of the golden generation, the last Olympic Games has been in a more struggling stage, all aspects are not expected to be competitive, very unexpectedly entered the Tokyo Olympic cycle. And the veteran Haddadi was hailed at the time as possibly the last Olympic Games.
No one expected that after getting enough rest time in the league, Haddadi still played well in the Sichuan men's basketball team, and the slow pace and positional warfare became the characteristics of the Sichuan men's basketball team.
It's just that with his Achilles tendon rupture, Sichuan has entered a state of reconstruction, recruiting a number of local inside players to join, coupled with small foreign aid is also likely to be further adjusted, Haddadi's return to the Sichuan men's basketball team next season may be unrealistic, and this time to lead the team to the men's basketball World Cup, may also be the last one in the real sense, and they in the group stage except for Côte d'Ivoire, the strength of other opponents are relatively large, if you look at the 16-32 qualifying round, it may be against Lebanon, Can the 38-year-old Haddadi lead his team to the men's basketball World Cup?