It just really hasn't been Zack Steffen's year.
The U.S. men's national team goalkeeper has suffered another injury, according to his club, Fortuna Dusseldorf. This time, it's a knee ligament ailment picked up in training, as clubs in Germany prepare for an eventual return to action behind closed doors.
Steffen, who started the club's first 17 matches this season, had suffered a knee injury in December related to a patellar tendon that kept him out through the Bundesliga winter break and into the pandemic shutdown. This injury, Fortuna Dusseldorf sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel said, is unrelated to the previous one.