Minnesota United defender Romain Metanire's newly injured left hamstring could end his season after his right hamstring limited him to only one MLS game played.
Loons coach Adrian Heath called that left hamstring on which Metanire came up hobbling in Saturday's international friendly "a terrible disappointment for all of us."
"But no more so than [to] him because you've seen how hard he's worked over the last three, four months to get himself in really good shape," Heath said.
Heath said he didn't know the grade of Metanire's new injury, but said the team's training and medical staff termed his recovery in terms of months rather than weeks.
Given it's mid-June and the MLS regular season ends in early October, Heath was asked if Metanire essentially could miss all this season.
"Could be," he said.
Metanire started Saturday's 4-3 victory over Germany's second-division SC Paderborn 07 but came up hobbling on his left leg in the 26th minute. Heath said the club "erred on the side of caution" in waiting to play him until near the end of the current FIFA international three-week break.
"He probably could have have played 10 days, two weeks ago," Heath said. "We could have forced him, but we wanted to give him so much time to get himself right. For the other hamstring to go is a huge blow."
