Jesper gronkjaer He was a player of the Atlético de Madrid in the 04/05 season. The Danish arrived at the rojiblanco club in the winter market from Birmingham City for about two million euros. His verticality on the wing, overflow and centers were appreciated by the mattress fans in the short time that the Greenlander was at the Vicente Calderón.
Despite what I was aiming for on the grass, Gronkjaer He never adapted to life in Spain or Atlético and a few months later, he left the rojiblanco team, where he did not even play 20 games. He stayed at 19, without goals or assists, although there will be many fans who still remember his good game in the derby against him Real Madrid, in which it was his debut with Atlético. Although the team then led by Cesar Ferrando He did not play a bad game, he ended up losing by 0-3, a classic of that time.
After leaving Atlético, Jesper, international with Denmark, with which he became captain, he played in the Stuttgart and then he returned home, to play five seasons in the Copenhagen before retiring.
Gronkjaer, one of the best Danish footballers of his time, is now a television commentator. And in one of his interventions, he has recounted the nightmare that he has lived in the last years of his life, where he has had to fight against depression and anxiety to the point of asking to enter a psychiatric hospital to recover.
It all started in 2016, when Gronkjaer began to feel fatigue. “The first little symptoms, which I didn't even notice, started with a violent rash on my neck. It was an outbreak of herpes and chickenpox, I lost some hair and it was very difficult for me to maintain order at work, “said the former footballer in Go Aften Live from TV2, according to Ekstrabladet.
A year later, the situation had not improved: “Unfortunately, the pill you take only works after two or three weeks. It's not the case that when you take it, it picks you up right away. At first, the side effects increase, and that was a problem for me, ”he recalled.
So he planted himself. He spoke to his wife. “I had to tell him that this was no longer possible. I need help! It was the best decision that I could make, because today I am sitting here and I am healthy, ”said the Greenlander. His wife took him to a psychiatric hospital, where he managed to recover.
On Monday, Gronkjaer took the last pill of the treatment, and wanted to share the moment on his social networks, trying to make all his followers aware of the importance of mental health and the need to seek specialized help.