Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez has said that he came very close to retiring from professional football during his recent injury nightmare. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he felt he was no longer a football player during the darkest moments of his rehabilitation, and the mental and physical toll of his serious knee injury actually left him on the brink of walking away from the sport entirely.
Martinez added that the thought of quitting grew in the early weeks of his recovery, so he is glad to be back.
His words, “You feel like you’re not a football player anymore. You feel pain and think you’ll never play football again. A mental and physical imbalance, which, honestly, when I think about it today, I don’t know how I did it.
After the first two or three weeks, to be honest, I didn’t want to play football anymore. And then, of course, you become more aware, you get that support.”
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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992 the left and the right, but he’s not got any sense of danger yet, and empties the midfield area too readily.
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