Ecuadorian player Segundo Castillo suffers knee injury

Quito (Ecuador), June 2 (IANS) Ecuadorian defender Segundo Castillo suffered a left-knee injury in a friendly match against Mexico, according to a medical report released by the country's medical team.

Hector Bohorquez, member of the squad's medical team, released the report Sunday after Castillo, player from Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal, underwent a medical test after he clashed with Mexican player Luis Montes, who suffered a fracture of right tibia and fibula, reports Xinhua.

The clash occurred Saturday in the friendly match where Ecuador lost 1-3 in Arlington, Texas, the second-to-last training game before Brazil 2014.

Bohorquez said, Castillo "suffers pain in the posterior-anterior region as well as in the region of the external collateral ligament."

Bohorquez said that Castillo will have "a magnetic resonance imaging" in the injured knee in Miami Monday.

"We will timely provide the test result as well as diagnosis and effective prognosis," said Bohorquez.

Castillo's injury has caused concern in the Ecuadorian Football Federation and among the players, who have expressed their support and wished a speedy recovery with messages in social network sites.

But the manager has kept faith in the player’s recovery and has included him the final 23 man squad for the World cup.