• Interview Raúl Entrerríos: "I can't imagine a better ending"

"It was after a game against Guadalajara, at the end of March. I got up from a nap and saw a little blurry, but I did not care. I thought it was some nonsense. It took me four days to go look at it. In the center of They told me it could be serious, they referred me to the hospital and there they already detected melanoma of the choroid in my right eye, a tumor under the retina. I went to Seville, my city, where they did a lot of tests to confirm the diagnosis and in the end they told me that I had two options. The first was to follow a long treatment that would allow me to keep the eye, but with reduced vision and the possibility of the tumor reappearing. The second was directly to have my eye removed. I decided that the best was the second and I am very happy with that decision. "

Antonio Serradilla

was one of the young people called to cover the losses of the best generation of Spanish handball -

Raúl Entrerríos, Joan Cañellas, Viran Morros, Gdeón Guardiola, Dani Sarmiento

...- when a diagnosis, choroidal melanoma in the right eye, forced him to leave the slopes. Two years ago, with only 20, he had made his international debut and with his two meters a position in the defense of the post-Tokyo 2020 team seemed his, but for a few months his goal was different.

"Handball stepped aside, the first thing was health. At my club, Logroño, they understood that I was going to Seville to be closer to my family and luckily I did it because the first days were very hard. quite bad. I was bleeding a lot, I got dizzy, it was a complicated process. Then when I started to feel better, to do a little exercise, it already got into my head to go back to the slopes. I remember that one day I started playing ping pong with my brothers and I was very happy because I realized that I hadn't lost my reflexes, that it was a matter of getting used to it. And, well, that's what I'm doing. "

Because if Antonio Serradilla was a promise, he still is;

because the stoppage due to the disease was just that, a stoppage.

On July 26, just four months after that nap, the winger returned to training with Logroño, last week he played a friendly and on Saturday the 28th he could participate in the first round of the European League - the old EHL Cup. -.

The technicians assure that the lack of the right eye is not noticeable in the movements, although the time in which he could not exercise is noticeable.

The main difference on the track is, in fact, that you must now always wear protective goggles.

"The way I play has not changed me"

"But they are above all to protect my good eye: now I cannot have an accident in that eye. On the track the sensations have been very good, much better than I expected, everyone congratulates me. I feel slow, of course. Physically I have a lot to improve, but that does not worry me because it only takes hours, I will recover it in time. The way I play has not changed me, although I cannot deny that I have less peripheral vision, that I have to turn my head a lot. I think that I can get used to it. "

Before choroidal melanoma, Serradilla's progression had been as fast as the current handball situation in Spain allows. Convinced in his school, the Escolapios de Montequinto in Dos Hermanas, to leave football, at 18 he was already the top scorer in the First National with Montequinto Handball and the leader of the defense of youth Spain that was runner-up in the world . In Guadalajara he was able to make his debut in Asobal and only two years later, already an absolute international, with Logroño he was going to make his debut in Europe when the covid and the economic situation of the club stopped him. This year, after his illness and his recovery, everything is ready.

"My goal is to return to the national team, I can regain my level. I hope to have more opportunities and I feel very attached to the team. During this time that I was not playing, a lot of people became interested in me: the coach,

Jordi

, called me several times.

[Ribera]

, I was talking regularly with Raúl Entrerríos, who helped me a lot. I suppose it will cost me and that it will be necessary to fight it, but I want to be there again. "

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