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Sam Kerr takes huge step on road to recovery from serious knee injury

Sam Kerr has joined a Chelsea training camp in Portugal
Sam Kerr has joined a Chelsea training camp in Portugal as the Australia Matildas’ captain continues to recover from a serious knee injury. Photograph: Naomi Baker/The FA/Getty Images

Sam Kerr is stepping up her recovery from a long-term knee injury at Chelsea as she joins the English champions on their mid-season training camp in Portugal.

The Matildas’ captain Kerr hasn’t been in a Chelsea squad in the last 12 months after she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury at the equivalent warm-weather training break in Morocco last January.

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