Xavi Hernández is about to conclude his revolution in medical services with the incorporation this Thursday of doctor Ricard Pruna, as advanced Sports world and was able to confirm AS. A person of maximum confidence of the Egarense coach, he joins himself to lead the medical services of the first team, with absolute autonomy with respect to the management of Ramon Canal, still the head of the area in the club.
Pruna lands at FC Barcelona with the challenge of putting order and concert in the medical services, overwhelmed by so many injured players and errors in the diagnosis, and the priority of redirect Ansu Fati and Pedri’s injuries, in order to put an end to the spiral of relapses and muscular problems that have dragged on for a year.
Pruna is a person with a proven experience, with More than 25 years at the Blaugrana club, which also has the total confidence of the heavyweights of the squad and the current staff. In fact, players like Gerard Piqué had the doctor’s medical support to advise them on their injuries, when he was no longer at the club, to the point that in the end Pruna ended up being Andorra’s medical advisor, chaired by the Catalan central defender.
Plum, that had a traumatic exit from the club a little over a year ago due to differences with the current manager Ramon Canal, decided to head to the United Arab Emirates last June to direct the medical services of El Sharjah. Six months after his adventure in the Persian Gulf, the doctor returns to Barcelona, after the insistence and persistence of Xavi, who demanded Pruna as the ideal person to stop the bleeding of injuries that he was destroying the first team.
Thus, starting this Thursday, Pruna will join Xavi Hernández’s staff, with the support of Xavi Valle, the affiliate’s doctor who has been up for just over two weeks. Down the road, and Until the arrival of Pruna, nine casualties have been consumed within this area: Lluís Til and Xavi Yanguas (doctors), Albert Roca, Jaume Bartrés and Juan Ramon Tarrago (physical trainers), Juanjo Brau and Xavi Linde (physiotherapists) and Rafael Peláez and Jordi Melero (analysts).