Hamburg - SV Hamburg's injury disaster continued on Tuesday with the Bundesliga club saying that Romeo Castelen will likely require a another knee operation, sidelining him indefinitely. The Dutchman Castelen went to Heidelberg for medical examinations after receiving a knock on his left knee while playing for Hamburg's under-23 team on Monday.
"He will most probably have to undergo another operation on his knee within the next days," said Hamburg spokesman Joern Wolf.
Castelen, 26, was sidelined for a year and a half with two knee operations and only returned to action this season.
"This setback is bitter now that I had just returned into the team,"told the club website.
The Bild daily, on its website, quoted him as saying that "I will probably be sidelined for a long time again if I require another operation."
Castelen is the latest casualty for Hamburg, who lie second in the Bundesliga and play Scotland's Celtic in the Europa League on Thursday.
Alex Silva, Colin Benjamin and Paulo Guerrero are out for months with ruptured cruciate knee ligaments and forward Mladen Petric is sidelined for the rest of the year with an ankle problem. In addition, veteran defender Bastian Reinhardt has a foot fracture.
