Real Madrid And Brazil Forward Rodrigo has torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and will be sidelined for seven months, ruling him out of the World Cup, the Spanish daily reported. Mark.

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Rodrigo statistics

Rodrigo has contributed three goals and six assists in 27 appearances for Madrid in six La Liga and two Champions League competitions this season.

He played 54 times for Madrid in 2024/25, scoring 14 goals and nine assists, including 22 of his 30 games in La Liga as a starter.

Five of those goals and two assists came in the Champions League, where he started 10 times and was on the bench twice.

In 2023/24, Rodrigo scored three more goals but provided three fewer assists in three fewer appearances, marking a decline from his best season so far for Madrid, which featured 19 goals and 10 assists in 57 games in 2022/23.

The Santos youth product was directly involved in 25 goals in 80 appearances for his first club and made his Brazil debut as an 18-year-old in 2019 before featuring at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, where his opening penalty was saved in the quarter-final shootout defeat to Croatia.

Brazil made him a regular in their 2024 Copa America campaign, although Rodrigo was substituted in the quarter-final shootout loss to Uruguay.