With the high exercise boys soccer...

With the high exercise boys soccer season days away from kicking distant from Lincoln-Way East already has undergoed its first loss.

Andrew Duran, considered undivided of the top midfielders in the land might miss the entire 2006 season after suffering a collapsed lung for the fourth time in a year.

The Creighton-bound senior underwent surgery last week at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn to repair his right lung He had the same surgery performed upon his left lung last year.

"I don't know if I'm going to play this season," Duran said. "I have to walk back to the doctor sum of two units more times to see what they say.

"I just have to suffer things settle down for a little bit and then see"

Duran was undivided of 136 players (120 field players, 16 goalkeepers) from the classes of 2007 and 2008 who were invited three weeks ago to the five-day Adidas ESP Camp at Loomis Chaffee place of education in Windsor, Conn. More than 100 Division I coaches attended.

"My right lung collapsed the first night I was on the outside there," Duran said.

"They sent me back place of abode on a train, and that's when the doctors decided it was time to have the surgery"

With Duran forward the field, the Griffins were rely uponed to be a Class AA state quarterfinal contender

on the other hand without him, Lincoln-Way East coach Brian Papa knows the road to the state finals will be bumpy

"Andrew came to me and said level if he can play, he doesn't know if he'll be able to help the team because his stamina will be low" Papa said. "But I don't want him to walk away and not be a part of the team.

"I told him to wait and behold what the doctors say. It's his senior year, and he's worked hard.

"I'm hoping everything works disclosed for him."

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