In the summer of 2015, Jackson Martínez arrived at Atlético de Madrid with the star band, in exchange for 35 million euros. His task was none other than to replicate what he had achieved in Porto, to serve as a balm after Falcao's goodbye. The Colombian He did not fit in and in February he packed his bags and, by means of 42 million, he went to the Chinese Super League, to Guangzhou Evergrande. There would begin his true ordeal. Injuries took him off the pitch and they did not let him show the striker who was in Portugal and, after 18 months without playing an official match due to a recurrent ankle ailment, Portimonense rescued him in 2018. But Jackson was never the same. In August 2020, his contract expired and, after months without a team, last December he retired at 34. Now he dedicates his life to music and “to preach the word of God”, but in the program 'Primer Toque', of 'Win Sports', has related the episodes that weighed down his promising career. Among them, a diagnostic error when he arrived at Atleti:
Diagnostic failure upon arrival at Atleti: “Where was the injury little is said, my injury occurred in the game against Chile, in 2015 in Chile. That's where it comes from, I arrived at Atlético de Madrid and they started treating me for a sprain, when I had had that injury about five times, I know that what I have is not that, because of the pain, because of the way, I knew it was not that. I knew all the types of that injury, but did not know how serious it was. “
Calvary: “As a player, you play with discomfort, you recover and continue because you trust the doctors who say that you have nothing serious. When I started for China in a match I received a very strong tackle and that made everything worse, they almost broke my tibia. And already after some games, I did not have surgery and there came a time when I could not even step“.
Withdrawal: “After 2015 it was a struggle, many people told me not to give up, but I did not give up, but I could no longer and no longer should, it was 5 years of fighting. It is still difficult because one never expects to retire because of an injury, but instead making the decision to say until here I want to play, but in my case it was an injury and it is even harder. I see little football because everything gets mixed up and the emotion takes part of something that is loved again, football is a passion that those of us who know about football are only going to understand. “
Offers to continue: “I had club proposals, but I didn't want to go to a club where I didn't have to work hard, I could have played longer at another club, but it could have hurt me more, what I thought was that I needed to go to another club where I It would cost, wherever I had to make more effort and that's how it happened, I came to Portugal, the first year was difficult but it went well, after 2 years without playing I scored goals that helped the team stay in the First Division. The second year was already quite difficult, with many games on the outside, but it never came to my mind that I had to stop. “