“This is the hardest year yet”

Marc Bartra He reappeared after more than ten months, due to a serious injury to the Achilles tendon, on the first day of the League, against Gironaand six minutes later he scored the team’s first goal of the season. Real Betis that surpassed the green and white team on the scoreboard, then equalized by the people from Girona. Ten days later, he was the starter again Mendizorrozawhere he did not finish the game when he asked for a change in the final stages due to a slight overload which prevented him from playing in Bernabeu before the break.

bartra He has trained for the last two weeks outside the group but is preparing to do it again next week with his teammates and be available for Pellegrini before the marathon of games to come. “The truth is that I’m pretty good. I can’t be with you Bernabeubut it is not important, it is more to avoid stopping a game. There were no injuries or anything serious, but given what was to come and the discomfort, we chose to be more cautious with a decision that everyone agreed upon. Today I am training, on the field and next week I will be with the team again,” said Bartra, in an interview with Relevo.

bartra is from overcoming the most difficult years of his career: “Yes, at the sporting level, I think, honestly, it was the most difficult. In the end that’s what I’m saying, that you can’t just not do your job, but you can’t do your passion, you can’t do what you love. “No one wants to have the ability to do what they love the most since they were kids taken away for almost a year.”

Recovering from the injury was very difficult and there were moments when he considered throwing in the towel: “Really. There are days when it’s hard to sleep at night. Maybe the second or third time I went out on the field and had to go back in, I found I wasn’t shooting. Feeling pain and discomfort that makes you unable to run. But you see that not everything is forward, that sometimes you have to step back. There are moments of being at home, moments of being half depressed, of crying, of not knowing what to do. And you see that it is worth more than you already know. But honestly I think you have two options. One is to start taking it to the level of a victim, to say, look, I’m not moving forward, and start making excuses and destroying. Or the other is the responsibility of saying, I will do everything in my power. “I will surround myself with the best specialists and move forward.”