“I was born again,” he said Iker Casillas on May 1, 2019. That day of unfortunate memory he suffered an acute myocardial infarction that was about to cost him his life. Elex’s Sarah Carbonero He remembers what happened four years later in this way: “I fell to the ground while training, I could barely breathe, I was looking for an oxygen route that didn’t even come, I was twisting. I felt a very sharp pain in my chest.”
They immediately took him to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. That speed, as he himself admits, was providential: “He saved my life.” At first, Iker attributed his respiratory problem to his allergy to grasses, but it turned out that the pain was much more serious. Fortunately they caught him in time.
The footballer, who turns 42 on May 20, could not believe it, he did not imagine that, being a young, healthy and athletic person, he would suffer such a mishap. If they had caught him elsewhere, without a nearby medical service, like the one at the training ground, the problem would have been much greater.
This week, Casillas was speaking at the Idoven’s YouTube channel, a company that works in detection and precision medicine with artificial intelligence for cardiology, the same one that awarded him months after suffering the heart attack “for his ability and performance to move forward after the event.”
In that talk, the great goalkeeper for Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team emphasized prevention: “Let’s not go beyond health because it is our most precious asset. We have to have all kinds of check-ups,” he insisted.
In recent years, Íker’s life has taken a 180 degree turn. He definitely retired from soccer, broke up his marriage with Sarah Carbonero and maintains a sentimental relationship with the sports journalist Ana Quiles, who works in a media outlet in Rome.
The goalkeeper has visited her there, and they were also seen recently in Madrid. But it is also true that he was recently caught with another girl, leaving a Madrid restaurant. At the moment the identity of that woman is unknown. Iker has spoken on occasions about his private life, although he is not very given to exposing his day-to-day life, normally away from the media spotlight. The former goalkeeper dedicates a good part of his time to being with his children. He maintains a cordial and respectful relationship with his ex.
In addition, he is the president of one of the teams that participate in the Kings League founded by his friend Gerard Piqué, a seven-a-side football competition that plays its matches on weekends in Barcelona.
Nacho Taboada and Sara Carbonero, “a very special person”
The 39-year-old journalist goes out with Nacho Taboada. The singer has defined Sara as a very special person. Her sentimental relationship strengthens. Both have been dating for more than a year: “I have met a very special person and from the first moment I knew that this was going to happen,” Taboada confessed to El Heraldo. “I carry it discreetly, with my way of being, always oblivious to that world. I try not to read a lot, go unnoticed. We both try to live as naturally as we can,” he explains.