Camacho and injuries: “The operations were a joy, you could start from scratch”

Ignacio Camacho said up to here last September. The ex of Atlético, Málaga and Wolfsburgo hung up his boots because of an ankle injury that prevents him from playing as he would like. The midfielder went through surgery countless times and was out for a year and a half due to two injuries in a row until he decided it was enough.

In the Third Time of Movistar, Gustavo López, former Celta and Zaragoza, asked him about his injuries. The Argentine recounted his experience and assured that he decided to leave him due to a similar injury when noticing that His knee became inflamed playing with his children and he asked him about the moment when he realized he had to stop.

“Throughout the three years you realized that after each operation you did not return. Your head and your desire made you be on the field but the reality is that every training session, every game was an ordeal. Two years ago, when it was the last game, the previous months from Monday to Friday I was ashamed to train with my teammates because I could be at 30%. Then the game would arrive and with adrenaline I would play 90 minutes, I would take an anti-inflammatory and I would shoot forward, but that was fooling myself. Sooner or later he knew he had to undergo surgery, “said the former footballer.

The Spaniard also recounted the psychological process that he was going through during recovery and how being in that state for so long was hard on a mental level. “The hardest thing for me was the day to day, very long recovery times and focused only on recovery, that if you played with your children in the garden you knew that it could affect your foot and that the next day it would hurt. plus. In the end, your illusion is to play again and you have to do everything possible. After so many months, the operations were a joy for me. They were starting from scratch and fighting again until the last one seemed good and a week after returning with the team he hit me hard again. The problem is that each operation was going to heal but they did not find the key or the problem was not solved and little by little it reappeared “, sentence.