Anthony Faingaa withdraws from Wallabies squad, faces six months out after shoulder reconstruction

ANTHONY Faingaa has withdrawn from the Wallabies squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship and faces six months on the sidelines with a shoulder injury.

Anthony Faingaa

REDS centre Anthony Faingaa has withdrawn from the Wallabies squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship and faces six months on the sidelines with a shoulder injury.

Faingaa, brother of Wallabies hooker Saia, revealed he had been carrying a shoulder injury all season and made the call to undergo a full reconstruction ahead of new coach Ewen McKenzie's 40-man squad assembling on Monday.

Faingaa posted the news on his Facebook page, saying: ``It is with great disappointment that I have to withdraw from the Wallabies 2013 Rugby Championship Squad due to injury''.

``I've been carrying this shoulder injury throughout the last season and I feel that it is not in the best interests of my teammates at the Reds nor the Wallabies squad to continue to do so.

``I'm immensely disappointed not to be joining my brother, Saia, at the Wallabies camp on Monday. We missed the last tour together (Lions 2013) and now we are to be split apart again because of my surgery and recovery.

``I will be having a full shoulder reconstruction this week so that I can recover in time for the 2014 Super 15 rugby season with the Queensland Reds.''