He came back, quite remarkably, from a torn ankle ligament to play 87 minutes for Borussia Dortmund against Hanover last Sunday.
But with Miami, in his mid-thirties, he wasn't quite as lucky, or healthy, and torn muscles and tendons kept him out of uniform almost half the time.
Last year, he injured his thumb diving for a ball in his first game back in late August after knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and was never quite the same down the stretch before struggling in the playoffs.
Of course, it can't compare to being Ukrainian or Syrian, or to being from a war-torn country, but it's still quite bad.
Here's a sample:What American politicians fail to understand (or at least it seems to me) is that today's Azerbaijan is quite a different place than the chaotic, war-torn, nearly failed state that the United States dealt with in its early years of independence.
Soccer is abuzz with opinions about David Beckham's torn Achilles' tendon, which is apparently not quite as mourned in England -- where Rob Smyth writes in The Guardian he will not be missed on the World Cup team -- as you might think.
These include John Bianchi, who works in glazed plaster; Rebecca Shiffman, who contributes a rather nice portrait of Mr. VanDerBeek; the promising abstract painter Jonathan Roth; and the sculptor David Kennedy-Cutler, who has fashioned something quite mysterious out of plexiglass, shattered CDs and a torn-up photograph of an oil slick.
There are lots of vegetarians, who choose the couscous and vegetable pie; a small number will not venture beyond a jacket potato; quite a few accept the offer of a handful of torn pea shoots; everyone likes the ice cream in cones.
Shin dresses either in quite extreme punk attire, such as bondage pants, leather and torn shirts, or in a uniform-ish, suit like outfit when he goes to work.
