Sporting Kansas City announced that Ike Opara had suffered a season-ending ankle injury on April 11th 2014. On Saturday, almost a year to the day, Ike Opara pulled out of a routine header and crumpled to the Sporting Park pitch.
It was apparent quickly that the injury was something out of the norm and while most Sporting Kansas City fans were hopeful that reports that he had a calf injury where true that wasn’t the case. Sporting Kansas City today confirmed that Ike Opara suffered an Achilles tendon injury.
While we have no reports as to the severity of the Achilles injury at this time it is certain that Ike Opara will be out for many months.