Yemery Pino: “Very difficult”

Yemery PinoVillarreal forward, reflected on his return to the Spanish team about the “very difficult” path he took last season due to a serious injury that kept him out of the Euro Cup, which made him go through ” moments of doubt and uncertainty.”

“Now you value training, travel, concentration, the small gestures of being present and living your life more. The first three months you can’t do things alone, you have to rely on people. has been a very good learning experience”, Yeremy appeared in Federation talks.

The Canary Islander recalled special advice from a teammate who went through his injury, the rupture of the cruciate ligament in his knee. “I remember Mikel (Oyarzabal) When I was injured, he told me, ‘Learn from the process, which is wonderful.’ At first I didn’t understand, I thought it was silly, and over time I saw that yes, we have to learn from this.”

“It was very long and very difficult, with moments of doubt and uncertainty when I didn’t know if I would be able to return the same or not. In the end, we are here in a new opportunity, a new illusion like the first. day , fighting for my dream,” he added. with the joy of returning to the national team after Luis de la Fuente’s call.

He The worst moment for Yeremy was when his recovery went haywire. “You have a process, they say how everything is, you improve every day and you are happy but the bacteria came to me and it was like a blow. Starting again, surgery again, starting on crutches when the process “In I think it falls apart and it starts over.”

The Villarreal winger is part of the group of players who won the 2023 Nations League, but He did not attend the German Euro Cup who continued to be proud of what his comrades had achieved.

“It hurts me a little not to be there, I won’t deny it, but I see what they have come to… I have been with them for a long time, since he arrived. Luis (De la Fuente) I’m always there and like a family. I was on call in Larúa, I spoke many times with Luis, with Baena, with David (Raya) and with Álvaro (Morata) They made me feel like I was part of the group even though I wasn’t. They gave me a lot of courage,” he recalled.

Now, with his serious injury behind him, Yeremy has enjoyed it again from the Spanish team with the pride of earning his return and hoping to wear the Red again.

“Getting into the national team is very difficult, there are very good players. Every day more because every season a new promise comes out and I’m very happy Luis and the coaching staff is giving me this opportunity. “I want to make the most of it,” he said.