Imagine that several years ago you were at home and one day FC Barcelona called you to play for your team. He signs, wins the League, the Cup, debuts with the national team and tries his luck in the other great of the First Iberdrola , Atlético de Madrid . Then April 2017 comes and it breaks cross. Goodbye to your first Euro Cup . They rebuild it, he struggles to recover and at seven months, when he was going to put an end to the odyssey, they have to operate on his meniscus. He starts again from scratch and manages to return to his best level, disputes his first World Cup and returns to the almighty Barcelona with more strength and energy than before. Then December 2019 arrives and the crusader breaks, and not the same as in 2017, the other, the one of the knee that was healthy. They operate on him and he begins again the same rehabilitation that he did three years ago. One step after another.
Now imagine that in the midst of a turning point, at that moment of leaving crutches behind after weeks locked in a room and starting to lead a normal life, go to the sports city and see their teammates, a virus spreads across the planet. , infects thousands of people and forces them to stay home. To live and recover. And still, despite everything, you are positive.
This is the story of Andrea Falcón, FC Barcelona footballer and international with Spain in the last World Cup played in France. "A week before the state of alarm was decreed I could go to the sports city and make life with my colleagues and with the doctors. And they just put you back at home. It was hard, " admits EL MUNDO, although he admits As it is something global, it has taken better: "We all live it and it is not me alone , the others have been the same, so I have tried to take it in the best way."
But how does someone rehabilitate from a cruciate ligament operation having to do a quarantine at home for weeks ?: "I have had constant contact with the doctors. Every morning they planned me what I had to do and by video call I They taught how to do the exercises, the technique, the gestures, they solved doubts ... Everything to return without delay, which at the moment has not been much. Confinement has caught me in the stage of strengthening and gaining muscles, so I was able to do it at home ", he acknowledges, as he already observes the new 'phase' of his recovery and his confinement: leaving. "I can go out and walk a little hour and run a little, so I'm happy" he jokes.
Falcon, who admits to spending her spare time during the quarantine on "painting and puzzles," is already an expert on long-term injuries. "I have a map on my knee," he confessed to this newspaper during the course of the last World Cup. When last December he felt what he felt during his meeting with Barcelona, he knew that the crusader had broken: "At the time of the gesture I already knew it. During the seconds that I was on the ground I relived the eleven months that I spent without playing, but afterwards it was less difficult for me because I already know the sensations, the steps to follow, the pains ... Knowing all that helps me to cope better. "
Fortunately, his contract with Barcelona ends in the summer of 2021, so he did not have to worry about its termination despite the fact that the footballers of the male and female teams in the Catalan club sections have seen their salary reduced: " If I had caught myself in another situation it would have been much more difficult, but luckily I have all the support of the club and the medical services. "
This Wednesday, the Federation announced that it ended the First Iberdrola with the current classification, so it crowned Barcelona as the league champion despite having nine days to play. Andrea, like her teammates, wanted to play and win the championship on the field, but ultimately it will not be so. "It is rare to win like this, the team wanted to play and finish the season, and we will also have to return because we have to play the Champions League. We have the thorn to finish as God commands , win a game and celebrate it, which is beautiful."
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