The Spanish midfielder Andres Iniesta He played again this Saturday with him Vissel Kobe Japan, in a match that ended with a 3-0 win for his team and after spending more than four months away from the pitch due to injury.
Iniesta He entered the game in the 75th minute replacing the also midfielder Shion Inoue, and with the match already closed by Vissel with a 3-goal advantage over his rival, the Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
Those from Kobe prevailed with two goals from Furuhashi and another from Nakasaka in the match of the twelfth day of the J-League, and they are provisionally in fifth position in the standings.
“After 4 months … I'm back!”, Said through his personal Twitter account before the game the La Mancha midfielder, who returned to training at the beginning of last month.
Iniesta underwent surgery last December in Barcelona for an injury he suffered in the Asian Champions League and it was announced then that he would need four months to recover.
The former Barcelona midfielder was injured in the round of 16 of that Asian tournament, played on December 10 in Qatar where the doctors who examined him diagnosed a tendon of the proximal rectus femoris muscle.