The player tore the cruciate ligament in her right knee in February of last year
MADRID, 5 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The footballer of FC Barcelona and the Spanish team Jana Fernández, who was discharged last week after tearing the cruciate ligament in her right knee in February 2022, acknowledged this Wednesday that “when something so traumatic happens to you, you remember it forever “, at the same time that he gave the “mental” section an importance of “70 percent” in the recovery process.
“When something so traumatic happens to you, you remember it forever. It was hard, you are never prepared to be told that you have to spend a year without playing what you like the most,” Fernández said in statements shared by the Royal Spanish Federation of Soccer (RFEF) in social networks.
The Barça Women’s player Jana Fernández received a medical discharge on February 28 after more than a year injured, after tearing the cruciate ligament in her right knee in training in February of last year.
And in this year of recovery, the player revealed that “mental health is 70 percent” of the process “in an injury like this.” “You have to be mentally strong and find the silver lining, because you can sink. The mind leads a lot to where the future wants to go,” she explained.
Fernández advised other soccer players who suffer injuries of this severity to “set short-term goals” and have “patience.” “That they get together with positive people. It’s something very hard that can become something positive that makes you mature a lot,” said the player, who confessed to being “very comfortable” in the concentration of the team.