Arsenal's Pablo Mari Back In Training After Stabbing

Spanish defender Pablo Mari has returned to training at Serie A side Monza, two months after undergoing surgery having been stabbed in an attack in an Italian supermarket that left one man dead. Milan's Niguarda hospital said in October its trauma team reconstructed two muscles in the back of the 29-year-old centre-back, who is on loan at Monza from Premier League club Arsenal.

On Wednesday, Mari tweeted a photo of him working out with the comment, "Step by step." A 46-year-old man with mental health concerns was seized following the incident in a Carrefour store and was being watched in a psychiatric unit, according to Italian police. The attacker had used a kitchen knife that could be purchased at the Assago store. A 47-year-old Bolivian native who worked at a grocery in a mall was killed, and four shoppers and another staff were hurt.

Mari moved to Arsenal from Flamengo in Brazil in 2020, where he made 19 appearances before spending this year on loan at Udinese. In August, he moved to Monza on loan.