Atlanta United on Friday announced that Josef Martinez will miss “approximately” next 6 to 8 weeks of the MLS season after undergoing a procedure on his right knee on Wednesday.
Martinez had originally travelled to UPMC Medical Center in Pittsburgh earlier in the week to get his knee evaluated after experiencing what the club called “recent discomfort”. After further evaluation, it was determined that he needed arthroscopic surgery to clean it out.
Martinez is, of course, coming off a torn ACL suffered in the first match of the 2020 MLS season. He returned on April 6, 2021, as a substitute in Atlanta’s Concacaf Champions League first-round match that year.