Bordalás lined up Gabriel Paulista yesterday after 119 days injured of the biceps femoris. The club’s doctors, aside from the entire recovery process of the Spanish-Brazilian, had recommended during the week that the ideal was that he only played a few minutes. But Gabriel and Bordalás had it clear. It was time to return after four months of suffering. Starter, captaincy and great goal for the squad after three minutes of play. It was a liberation after so much work in which even They had recommended that he undergo surgery and say goodbye to the season. The happy circle closed with Valencia’s victory in Mallorca and the center-back completing the 90 minutes.
“This goal is for all of us! It is a cry of love and struggle“, Gabriel Paulista wrote on his Instagram account after the game along with a video of the goal and a photo of the celebration. A fight that he undertook alone just after the Christmas holidays. The club’s doctors had recommended go under the knife after a second relapse but the Spanish-Brazilian, after consulting several specialists (one of his most trusted in Brazil) decided put in the hands of Fermín Valera, a specialist in EPI technology (Percutaneous Intratissue Electrolysis), co-director of the MVClínic clinic, which collaborates with First Division teams, such as Getafe, Atlético or Rayo; many others from Europe; several ATP tennis players; and even players from the World Padel Tour. A physiotherapist with whom they have already dealt with this season in addition to Gabriel, other Valencia players like Foulquier and Omar Alderete.
Valera had already traveled three times to Valencia to carry out the EPI sessions, but the follow-up and evolution had been done at a distance and by means they pillared the Christmas holidays in which the footballer went to Brazil. The treatment it had only worked halfway and Paulista relapsed for the second time. And after getting over the disgust, she decided it was now or never. “The operating room to hell!” he put on his social networks and decided to settle in Madrid for a month, as revealed by AS on January 17, to treat himself day by day together with the Fermín Valera team: two weeks on a stretcher, with the EPI system, and two weeks of rehabilitation to work. Morning and afternoon sessions. She only appeared for Paterna on his days off.
And that month Paulista’s life changed. He cured the injury with hard work sessions that he posted on Instagram. Two weeks agoin Paterna, began his readaptation to work individually and this week he joined the group after being on the bench during the game against Barça, in a testimonial way. His great goal against Mallorca is the reward for all this effort already a decision: leaving home for a month to finish off an injury that it was giving him more problems than he had originally assumed. “It’s a very special flavor, on an individual level because I’ve been through very difficult times. I heard people say they don’t want to go back to play with my teammates”, he said angrily after the game. And he arrives in time for the most important game of the season. 90 minutes that can put Valencia back in a Cup final, the only title that Gabriel has won as a Valencianista.“This victory is a very important jump for the Cup match”, he commented.