Morabito confident after surgery

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Recovery ... Anthony Morabito remains strong after a third reconstruction. Source: Michael Dodge / News Limited

Fremantle midfielder Anthony Morabito is confident he can still carve out a successful AFL career after undergoing a hybrid form of LARS surgery.

Morabito said he never contemplated retiring despite rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee for the third time last January.

The 21-year-old was all set to undergo a traditional knee reconstruction, but changed his mind after a call from Sydney premiership defender Nick Malceski, who has undergone the LARS procedure twice.

However, instead of the usual LARS procedure, which uses a synthetic graft to reconstruct the knee, Morabito's was slightly different.

"We went for a hybrid graft, which incorporates the LARS with part of your own hamstring tendon,'' Morabito told reporters in Perth on Wednesday.

"So the aim of that is to get the short turnaround of the LARS, but also have the longevity of a hamstring graft over time.

"It was something new for us.

"Once we had the information, it seemed like the logical answer, just because it did give you that long-term effect if all goes to plan.

"I would not have wanted to go down the pure LARS path, just for the fact that I would have felt like I was trying to salvage something out of nothing.''

Morabito, who underwent the LARS procedure in January, hopes to be back on the field in the first half of this season, but said it might take some time for him to recapture his best form.

"I just look forward to training every day now and improving on a daily basis with the knowledge that football is going to happen at some stage this year,'' he said.

"I have no doubt in my football ability.

"At 21 years of age, I'd like to think there's still football ahead of me.

"I never thought about giving it away. But as you can imagine I was pretty distraught when it happened.

"Luckily for me, that phone call from Malceski came at the right time, because it really put me on the path to where I wanted to go.''

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