Turin [Italy], Sept 4 (ANI): Juventus captain Giorgio Chiellini has undergone successful surgery for a right knee injury and the expected recovery time is around 6 months, the club said on Wednesday. The 35-year-old defender sustained the knee injury during a training session last Friday. The surgery was to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee, the club said in a statement."The intervention, performed at the Hochrum clinic in Innsbruck by professor Christian Fink in the presence of the Juventus club doctor, Tzouroudis, was perfectly successful," it added. (ANI)

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