Mexico's Marcel Ruiz is ready to risk it all on the World Cup, ACL injury be damned

Marcel Ruiz’s reaction said everything. As he sat on the field at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on March 11, Ruiz covered his face in disbelief. What he felt in his knee appeared to startle him. One could almost guess what his thoughts were at that moment. “Not me. Not now.”Less than two months from the World Cup, players around the world are vying for the final spots on their country’s World Cup squads. One of those is Ruiz, who is doing so on a partially torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Ruiz is in the midst of a desperate comeback from the injury with hopes to keep his dream alive of playing for Mexico this summer.Advertisement