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Castelen becomes Hamburg's latest injury concern

Oct 20, 2009, 10:32 GMT

Hamburg - SV Hamburg's injury disaster continued on Tuesday with the Bundesliga club saying that Romeo Castelen may require a another knee operation. 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. 'This setback is bitter now that I had just returned into the team,' Castelen, who was sidelined for more than a year with two operations and only returned this season, 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, 26, is the latest casualty for Hamburg, who lie second in the Bundesliga. 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.

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