Benfica midfielder Pauleta pinpoints cause of ACL injuries in women's game

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Speaking at the Thinking Football Summit, Benfica midfielder Pauleta - recovering from her own knee injury - offered a reason as to the cause of ACL injuries in the women's game.

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00:00 The rehab is going well. I'm happy in the sadness of being injured, but I'm happy because

00:07 all is going well. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling the knee going up and always getting stronger.

00:15 I'm so excited to start to return to touch the ball, to be with them in the field.

00:21 We see that knee injuries are most common in our game and we need to investigate more,

00:28 to try to help more the players, to try to be more prepared to play so many games, so many minutes.

00:36 The problem is that five years ago we were not playing 30 or 40 games each season.

00:44 I think our bodies have to adapt to this type of world of football.

00:49 I think all of our world is trying to help the players to be in the best form.

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