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Lyon’s Ada Hegerberg will need surgery after rupturing ACL

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One of the best soccer players on the planet will be sidelined for quite sometime due to a devastating injury.

Ada Hegerberg, the 2018 winner of the Ballon d’Or Féminin, announced Tuesday that she had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. Her club, Olympique Lyonnais, confirmed the injury in a statement. It occurred during a recent training session.

Translated from French, the club said: “The operating date will be defined in the coming days and the unavailability will be consistent with the known statistics for this type of injury.