Canada midfielder Ismael Kone thankful as he begins recovery from broken leg

[p]The 24-year-old was caught ‌by a clumsy second-half tackle from ‌Qatar's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/madibo-assim/fJdag48f/"]Assim Madibo[/a] and underwent surgery to repair the damage.[/p][p]"[b]Your love and support has been ‌felt, honestly thank you so ⁠much. You ‌can’t even imagine, how grateful I am ​to everyone who reached out and that has me in their ​prayers. I thank god for that because not everyone is this fortunate[/b]," [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kone-ismael/MkgjOoBG/"]⁠Kone[/a] wrote on ​Instagram on Friday.[/p][p]Several of Kone's teammates looked on in shock as he received treatment on the field before having ‌his leg placed in an inflatable support.[/p][embed guid="dd3fbc76-a9ef-4418-bf63-db74d1e0e023" url="https://x.com/CANMNT_Official/status/2068020795037913377" social-type="twitter" /][p]"[b]I wanted you to know that I love you guys from the bottom of my heart and our brotherhood is everything to me[/b]," Kone wrote.[/p][p]"[b]What you guys did yesterday will stay with me forever. I’ll be back ‌very soon and we’ll keep making ​more memories together[/b]."[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/canada/x4toKORL/"]Canada[/a] are due to ‌train at the National Soccer Development Centre at the University of British Columbia on Friday before having a team barbecue. Their final group ⁠game against [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/switzerland/rHJ2vy1B/"]Switzerland[/a] ⁠is on ‌June 24th.[/p][infobox id="4ccc1b10-d68f-4c97-bcf4-5e613c17c2e3" /]