Dynamic Syndications earlier this month joined forces with
SYDNEY FC as a Corporate Partner to the famous Hyundai A League Foundation Club.
Proudly we became the
Player Sponsor of the A-Leagues excitement machine – attacking winger
BERNIE IBINI (#11).
Excitedly for
SYDNEY FC Players, Staff and Fans, the wait to see the explosive speed of the
Socceroo winger is almost over.
In last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph (Sydney-18 September) there was a full page story by
TOM SMITHIES, the Football Editor at The Daily Telegraph.
His article highlights the setbacks
BERNIE has faced after a serious injury had placed him on the sidelines for over 12 months.
We trust you will enjoy Tom’s story below:
It might be the imagination, but it seems like Bernie Ibini is finding an extra level of power every time he drives the ball into a net at
Sydney FC’s training ground.
Finally, after 14 months, the waiting is over. This week the
Socceroos winger returns to full-contact training, a year and two months after breaking his leg and shearing ligaments in a horrible training ground accident at his new club in Belgium.
This week’s FFA Cup quarter-final with Blacktown City will come too quickly, but all being well, Ibini still harbours hopes of being fit and ready for round one of the A-League — just three weeks away.
Sydney FC winger Bernie Ibini is finally back in full training.
To say Ibini feels comfortable, back on loan for a year in Sydney, is an understatement. Even the potentially frustrating last few weeks of his rehab — so near and yet so far, building up his strength while his teammates trained — have flown by.
“Actually these weeks have been the easy ones, knowing that finally there’s light at the end of the tunnel — the fact that I’m almost at the end of the tunnel,” Ibini said. “I know I’m working hard, and getting closer and closer.
“I’ve done a lot of work, especially since coming back here to Sydney. The staff here have given me detailed programs and I’ve felt myself getting stronger and stronger. They’ve increased the loads as I’ve closer to being ready.”
The whole saga has been cruel, Ibini getting injured just weeks after signing for Club Brugge from Sydney at the end of the season before last, and then undergoing two operations as the recovery process kept expanding. Brugge have largely left him to it, though he is due to return there at the end of the coming season.
“For whatever reason, it (the injury) has been a long, long time to get better,” he said. “The medical staff have helped me here so much, and it seems to have happened pretty quickly from when I got back here.
“Definitely being back with the family, and with people I know very well, has helped me a lot. Being back with the boys at the club who I know very well. I had a good time here last time and it’s been very enjoyable completing my rehab here, as well as being back at home.
Bernie Ibini is set to make his long-awaited return from injury.
“It was after two weeks at a training camp in Holland that it happened. It was a tackle from one of my new teammates. I was dribbling the ball, he came in for a slide tackle and the injury happened.
“I fractured my tibia and tore my syndesmosis. It was pretty serious, but not something I expected to keep me out for so long.
“Still, my target is to be ready for round one. My target is to be physically ready, and then it’s up to the staff if they want to select me.”
- TOM SMITHIES.