Soccer goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from FC Bayern Munich broke his lower leg on a ski tour. The current season is over for him, the 36-year-old said on social networks.

"What can I say, the end of the year could have gone better," wrote the football professional on Instagram. He wanted to clear his head while ski touring and broke his lower leg in the process. "Yesterday's surgery went very well," he wrote. In addition, Neuer posted a picture of himself in the hospital bed.

World Cup follows the end of the season

Neuer will be missing from Munich for the rest of the first half of the season and the entire second half of the season, as he himself confirmed. The 117-time national player had been slowed down again and again by injuries in the previous season and only regained his fitness shortly before the World Cup. He had previously been sidelined for weeks due to an acromioclavicular joint injury and was replaced by Sven Ulreich. In the first half of the season he only played twelve league games. He only made his comeback at the beginning of November in the 3-2 win against Hertha BSC.

After the early end of the World Cup in Qatar, some experts also criticized Neuer's performance. The captain then ruled out his resignation from the national team. However, Neuer had expressed his deep disappointment. "It's brutally frustrating that we haven't been able to perform consistently. It will take some time to process all of this," he wrote. Germany were eliminated after the World Cup group stage after losing to Japan, drawing against Spain and beating Costa Rica.