Keylor Navas returned to Madrid on Monday after suffering an injury that will keep him out of the Gold Cup in the US and Canada this summer. Just a day earlier, Navas married his fiancée Andrea Salas at a church in Costa Rica. The Real Madrid keeper will undergo tests to determine the extent of an Achilles problem that has been bothering him since last summer's World Cup in Brazil.
"I'm getting there, getting better, and I hope to be ready as soon as possible," Navas said on arrival at Madrid's Barajas airport. Will he stay to fight for his place in the Real goal? "I always have, nobody has turned up yet," he said of reports linking Manchester United's David de Gea with the Bernabéu.
"He has two options; an operation or treatment," said Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rica's manager, after confirmation his first-choice keeper would not be available for the Gold Cup. However, after Real's doctor's examined the player, intervention has thus far been ruled out. Navas confirmed as much on the social networks: "I'm happy, grateful to God, the club doctors have examined me and they have ruled out an operation on the injury. Today I received plasma treatment on the left heel. Now I have to rest."